CVE-2010-4249

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 5
Modified
Published: 29 Nov 2010, 15:00
Last modified:07 Aug 2024, 03:34

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
30/100
CVSS Score
4.9 MEDIUM
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.08% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
6 found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

29 Nov 2010, 15:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
07 Aug 2024, 03:34
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 4.9AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.08%• Percentile: 24%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-400•Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

    The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.

Affected Systems

  • fedoraproject•fedora

    13

  • linux•linux_kernel

    < 2.6.37 | 2.6.37 | 2.6.37:rc1 | 2.6.37:rc2

References (23)