CVE-2010-1084: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Linux kernel 2.6.18 through 2.6.33, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a large number of Bluetooth sockets, related to the size of sysfs files in (1) net/bluetooth/l2cap.c, (2) net/bluetooth/rfcomm/core.c, (3) net/bluetooth/rfcomm/sock.c, and (4) net/bluetooth/sco.c.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: version 2.6.18 only; version 2.6.18.1 only; version 2.6.18.2 only; version 2.6.18.3 only; version 2.6.18.4 only; version 2.6.18.5 only; …

Published 2010-04-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.