CVE-2010-4249 (GCVE-0-2010-4249)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2010-11-29 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 03:34
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
http://secunia.com/advisories/42354 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/1… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45037 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-00… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/2 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/23/395 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656756 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3321 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://secunia.com/advisories/42963 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/25/8 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-20… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=129059035929046&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://secunia.com/advisories/42890 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-01… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/n… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15622/ exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0168 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://secunia.com/advisories/42745 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/next/… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/23/450 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
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