CVE-2010-3880: Debian Linux

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

net/ipv4/inet_diag.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc2 does not properly audit INET_DIAG bytecode, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel infinite loop) via crafted INET_DIAG_REQ_BYTECODE instructions in a netlink message that contains multiple attribute elements, as demonstrated by INET_DIAG_BC_JMP instructions.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 5.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: before 2.6.37 (fixed in 2.6.37); version 2.6.37 only

Published 2010-12-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.