Is CVE-2010-3873 being actively exploited?

CVE-2010-3873 is not currently listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2010-3873?

CVE-2010-3873 has a CVSS 2.0 base score of 5.0 (MEDIUM).

CVE-2010-3873

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 3.7%EU EUVD

The X.25 implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36.2 does not properly parse facilities, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and panic) or possibly have unspecified other impact via malformed (1) X25_FAC_CALLING_AE or (2) X25_FAC_CALLED_AE data, related to net/x25/x25_facilities.c and net/x25/x25_in.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-4164.

Key facts

CVSS score: 5.0 (v2.0)
Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness (CWE): CWE-119
EPSS score: 3.7% (90th percentile)
In CISA KEV: No
In EU EUVD: Yes (EUVD-2010-3851)
Published: January 3, 2011
NVD last modified: June 16, 2026
Status: Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-3851 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

debian / debian linux
linux / linux kernel
opensuse / opensuse
suse / linux enterprise server

Certified products that may be affected

2 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified products, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Version 9 with Service Pack 2, ProPack 4 for Service Pack 2 and certification-sles-sgi-eal3 package - SUSE Linux Products Gmbh - Common Criteria BSI-DSZ-CC-0292-2005 - archived
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server Version 9 with certification-sles-ibm-eal4 package - SUSE Linux Products Gmbh - Common Criteria BSI-DSZ-CC-0256-2005 - archived

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a6331d6f9a4298173b413cf99a40cc86a9d92c37
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00002.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-06/msg00005.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/03/2(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/04/3(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/43291(Third Party Advisory)
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2126(Third Party Advisory)
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36.2(Broken Link)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:029(Third Party Advisory)
http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg145786.html(Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg145873.html(Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0375(Third Party Advisory)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=649693(Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory)

Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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