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Actively exploited · Published Dec 6, 2010 · Assigned by canonical

CVE-2010-3904

High 7.8 Exploited

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in Kernel from Linux. Attackers are actively exploiting it in the wild (listed by CISA on May 12, 2023). The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 15.9% (higher than 97% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Metasploit, public proof-of-concept code. The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)15.9%top 3.1% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildYesCISA KEV since May 12, 2023
Attack tooling2Metasploit, Public PoC

CISA guidance

The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.

Federal agencies must remediate by Jun 2, 2023.

Official description

The rds_page_copy_user function in net/rds/page.c in the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36 does not properly validate addresses obtained from user space, which allows local users to gain privileges via crafted use of the sendmsg and recvmsg system calls.

Affected products (as reported)

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