CVE-2010-4258

Key facts

CVSS score

6.2 (v2.0)

Severity

MEDIUM

CVSS vector

AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-269

EPSS score

2.7% (85th percentile)

In CISA KEV

No

In EU EUVD

Yes (EUVD-2010-4231)

Published

December 30, 2010

NVD last modified

June 16, 2026

Status

Modified

Affected products

• fedoraproject / fedora
• linux / linux kernel
• opensuse / opensuse
• opensuse / opensuse
• suse / linux enterprise desktop
• suse / linux enterprise desktop
• suse / linux enterprise real time extension
• suse / linux enterprise server
• suse / linux enterprise server
• suse / linux enterprise server
• suse / linux enterprise software development kit

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://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2010-12/0086.html(Broken Link)
• http://blog.nelhage.com/2010/12/cve-2010-4258-from-dos-to-privesc/(Third Party Advisory)
• http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=10234(Third Party Advisory)
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=33dd94ae1ccbfb7bf0fb6c692bc3d1c4269e6177
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/01/chrome-os-beta-channel-update.html(Third Party Advisory)
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052513.html(Third Party Advisory)
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00000.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00001.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00004.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00007.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00002.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
• http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129117048916957&w=2(Patch, Third Party Advisory)
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/02/2(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/02/3(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/02/4(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/02/7(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/08/4(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/08/5(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/08/9(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/09/14(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/09/4(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42745(Third Party Advisory)
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42778(Third Party Advisory)
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42801(Third Party Advisory)
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42932(Third Party Advisory)
• http://secunia.com/advisories/43056(Third Party Advisory)
• http://secunia.com/advisories/43291(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.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3321(Third Party Advisory)
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0012(Third Party Advisory)
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0124(Third Party Advisory)
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0213(Third Party Advisory)
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298(Third Party Advisory)
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0375(Third Party Advisory)
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=659567(Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory)
• https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/12/1/543(Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory)