CVE-2010-4248

[CVE catalog]

Severity

Unknown

Published

Jan 30, 2011, 12:00:00 AM UTC

Updated

Mar 9, 2026, 1:20:42 AM UTC

Source

[NVD] · [CVE record]

EPSS

0.32% · Oct 25, 2026

Race condition in the __exit_signal function in kernel/exit.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc2 allows local users to cause a denial of service via vectors related to multithreaded exec, the use of a thread group leader in kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c, and the selection of a new thread group leader in the de_thread function in fs/exec.c. kernel: posix-cpu-timers: workaround to suppress the problems with mt exec This issue did not affect the version of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 as it did not have support for CPU time clocks for the POSIX clock interface. This has been addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG via https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0004.html, https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html and https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0330.html. The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.