CVE-2010-1087

Summary

CVE	CVE-2010-1087
State	PUBLISHED
Assigner	mitre
Source Priority	CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published	2010-04-06 22:30:00 UTC
Updated	2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
Description	The nfs_wait_on_request function in fs/nfs/pagelist.c in Linux kernel 2.6.x through 2.6.33-rc5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (Oops) via unknown vectors related to truncating a file and an operation that is not interruptible.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.8 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector

Network

Access Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Complete

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

Type	Vendor	Product	Version	Update	Edition	Language
Operating System	Debian	Debian Linux	5.0	All	All	All
Operating System	Linux	Linux Kernel	All	All	All	All
Operating System	Linux	Linux Kernel	2.6.33	rc1	All	All
Operating System	Linux	Linux Kernel	2.6.33	rc2	All	All
Operating System	Linux	Linux Kernel	2.6.33	rc3	All	All
Operating System	Linux	Linux Kernel	2.6.33	rc4	All	All
Operating System	Linux	Linux Kernel	2.6.33	rc5	All	All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

Source	Vendor	Product	Version	Platforms
CNA	Na	N/a	affected n/a	Not specified

References

Reference	Source	Link	Tags
SecurityFocus	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	www.securityfocus.com	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Webmail - OVH	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	www.vupen.com	Third Party Advisory
Repository / Oval Repository	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	oval.cisecurity.org	Third Party Advisory
VMSA-2011-0003	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	www.vmware.com	Third Party Advisory
Bug 567184 – CVE-2010-1087 kernel: NFS: Fix an Oops when truncating a file	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	bugzilla.redhat.com	Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
VMware ESX Server Multiple Kernel Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Community	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	secunia.com	Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2053-1 linux-2.6	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	www.debian.org	Third Party Advisory
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	git.kernel.org
Debian update for linux-2.6 - Advisories - Community	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	secunia.com	Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] SUSE Security Announcement: Linux kernel (SUSE-SA:20	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	lists.opensuse.org	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Linux Kernel VM/VFS 'invalidatepage()' Local Denial of Service Vulnerability	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	www.securityfocus.com	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Security Advisory SA40645 - SUSE update for kernel - Secunia	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	secunia.com	Third Party Advisory
oss-security - CVE request: kernel: NFS: Fix an Oops when truncating a file	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	www.openwall.com	Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree	MITRE	git.kernel.org
CVE Program record	CVE.ORG	www.cve.org	canonical
NVD vulnerability detail	NVD	nvd.nist.gov	canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Organization	Published	Contributor	Statement
Red Hat	2010-04-07	Vincent Danen	Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/CVE-2010-1087 This issue did not affect the versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 as they did not include the upstream commit 150030b7 that had introduced the problem. A future update in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG may address this flaw.

There are currently no legacy QID mappings associated with this CVE.