CVE-2010-4256
The pipe_fcntl function in fs/pipe.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37 does not properly determine whether a file is a named pipe, which allows local users to cause a denial of service via an F_SETPIPE_SZ fcntl call.
Date published : 2011-01-25
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.37