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CVE-2010-4251

CVSS v3.1 7.5 (High)
75% Progress
CVSS v2.0 7.8 (High)
78% Progress
EPSS 2.16 % (90th)
2.16% Progress
Affected Products 3
Advisories 11
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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.

Weaknesses
CWE-400
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Related CVEs
CVE Status
PUBLISHED
CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Published Date
2011-05-26 16:55:03
(13 years ago)
Updated Date
2023-02-13 04:28:25
(19 months ago)

Affected Products

Linux

Redhat

Vmware

Configuration #1

    CPE23 From Up To
  Linux Kernel prior 2.6.34 version cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel < 2.6.34

Configuration #2

    CPE23 From Up To
  Vmware Esx 4.0 cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esx:4.0
  Vmware Esx 4.1 cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esx:4.1

Configuration #3

    CPE23 From Up To
  Redhat Enterprise Linux 4.0 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4.0