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CVE-2010-4249

CVSS v2.0 4.9 (Medium)
49% Progress
EPSS 0.04 % (0th)
0.04% Progress
Affected Products 2
Advisories 16
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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.

Weaknesses
CWE-400
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CVE Status
PUBLISHED
CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Published Date
2010-11-29 16:00:04
(14 years ago)
Updated Date
2023-02-13 04:28:24
(19 months ago)

Affected Products

Fedoraproject

Linux

Configuration #1

    CPE23 From Up To
  Linux Kernel prior 2.6.37 version cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel < 2.6.37
  Linux Kernel 2.6.37 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.37:-
  Linux Kernel 2.6.37 Rc1 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.37:rc1
  Linux Kernel 2.6.37 Rc2 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.37:rc2

Configuration #2

    CPE23 From Up To
  Fedoraproject Fedora 13 cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:13