CVE-2010-4250 - Praiseful Generator

Description

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.

Reference

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.37 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656830 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/11 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a2ae4cc9a16e211c8a128ba10d22a85431f093ab http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a2ae4cc9a16e211c8a128ba10d22a85431f093ab