CVE-2010-4169: Fedoraproject Fedora

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

Use-after-free vulnerability in mm/mprotect.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc2 allows local users to cause a denial of service via vectors involving an mprotect system call.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 13 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: before 2.6.37 (fixed in 2.6.37); version 2.6.37 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 11.3 only
• Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop: version 11 only
• Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension: version 11 only
• Suse Linux Enterprise Server: version 11 only

Published 2010-11-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.