CVEvulnerability

CVE-2010-4526

7.1 HIGH Published 2011-01-11 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2011-01-11
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.1 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-362

Description

Race condition in the sctp_icmp_proto_unreachable function in net/sctp/input.c in Linux kernel 2.6.11-rc2 through 2.6.33 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) via an ICMP unreachable message to a socket that is already locked by a user, which causes the socket to be freed and triggers list corruption, related to the sctp_wait_for_connect function.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.11.1 <= 2.6.33) • linux linux kernel 2.6.11 • redhat enterprise mrg 1.0 • vmware esx 4.0 • vmware esx 4.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness

References