CVE-2010-4249
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Nov 29, 2010
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Nov 16, 2010
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- 42354third-party-advisory
- 20111013 VMSA-2011-0012 VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third party libraries and ESX Service Consolemailing-list
- 46397third-party-advisory
- [oss-security] 20101124 Re: CVE request: kernel: unix socket local dosmailing-list
- FEDORA-2010-18983vendor-advisory
- 45037vdb-entry
- RHSA-2011:0007vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20101124 CVE request: kernel: unix socket local dosmailing-list
- [linux-kernel] 20101123 Unix socket local DOS (OOM)mailing-list
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656756
- ADV-2010-3321vdb-entry
- 42963third-party-advisory
- [linux-kernel] 20101125 Simple kernel attack using socketpair. easy, 100% reproductiblle, works under guest. no way to protect :(mailing-list
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html
- [netdev] 20101124 [PATCH] af_unix: limit unix_tot_inflightmailing-list
- 42890third-party-advisory
- RHSA-2011:0162vendor-advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9915672d41273f5b77f1b3c29b391ffb7732b84b
- 15622exploit
- ADV-2011-0168vdb-entry
- 42745third-party-advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/next/patch-v2.6.37-rc3-next-20101125.bz2
- [linux-kernel] 20101124 [PATCH net-next-2.6] scm: lower SCM_MAX_FDmailing-list
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