{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2010-08-13T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: mm: mem allocated invisible to oom_kill() when not attached to any threads",
    "id" : "625688",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=625688"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "4.9",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "fs/exec.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37 does not enable the OOM Killer to assess use of stack memory by arrays representing the (1) arguments and (2) environment, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted exec system call, aka an \"OOM dodging issue,\" a related issue to CVE-2010-3858." ],
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Brad Spengler for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2011-01-13T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2011:0017",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.18-238.el5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2011-02-22T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2011:0283",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.32-71.18.1.el6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2",
    "release_date" : "2011-09-12T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2011:1253",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:2:server:el6",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:2.6.33.9-rt31.75.el6rt"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-4243\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4243" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2010-4243",
  "csaw" : false
}