CVE-2010-4251
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- May 26, 2011
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Nov 16, 2010
Description
The socket implementation in net/core/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.34 does not properly manage a backlog of received packets, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by sending a large amount of network traffic, as demonstrated by netperf UDP tests.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- 20111013 VMSA-2011-0012 VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third party libraries and ESX Service Consolemailing-list
- 46397third-party-advisory
- [netdev] 20100302 [PATCH 1/8] net: add limit for socket backlogmailing-list
- 46637vdb-entry
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.34
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657303
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8eae939f1400326b06d0c9afe53d2a484a326871
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