CVE-2010-4250: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Memory leak in the inotify_init1 function in fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via vectors involving failed attempts to create files.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 2.6.36.4; version 2.6.36.1 only; version 2.6.36.2 only; version 2.6.36.3 only

Published 2012-06-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.