CVE-2010-0410: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

drivers/connector/connector.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32.8 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and system crash) by sending the kernel many NETLINK_CONNECTOR messages.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 6.06 only; version 8.04 only; version 8.10 only; version 9.04 only; version 9.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 4.0 only; version 5.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: before 2.6.32.8 (fixed in 2.6.32.8)

Published 2010-02-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.