CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-4249
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2010-11-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Description
The wait_for_unix_gc function in net/unix/garbage.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc3-next-20101125 does not properly select times for garbage collection of inflight sockets, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) via crafted use of the socketpair and sendmsg system calls for SOCK_SEQPACKET sockets.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.37)
• linux linux kernel 2.6.37
• fedoraproject fedora 13
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9915672d41273f5b77f1b3c29b391ffb7732b84b git.kernel.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052513.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/23/395 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/23/450 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/25/8 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=129059035929046&w=2 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42354 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42745 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42890 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42963 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15622/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/next/patch-v2.6.37-rc3-next-20101125.bz2 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/10 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/2 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0162.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45037 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3321 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0168 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656756 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9915672d41273f5b77f1b3c29b391ffb7732b84b git.kernel.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052513.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/23/395 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/23/450 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/25/8 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=129059035929046&w=2 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42354 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42745 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42890 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42963 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15622/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/next/patch-v2.6.37-rc3-next-20101125.bz2 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/10 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/2 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0162.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45037 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3321 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0168 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656756 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory