CVE-2010-4249

CVE Details

Release Date:

2010-11-29

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.

See more information about CVE-2010-4249 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	4.9	Base Metrics:	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector:	Local network	Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None	Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (kernel)	ELSA-2011-0162	2011-01-18
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (ocfs2-2.6.9-89.35.1.0.1.EL)	ELSA-2011-0162	2011-01-18
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (oracleasm-2.6.9-89.35.1.0.1.EL)	ELSA-2011-0162	2011-01-18
Oracle Linux version 5 (kernel)	ELSA-2011-0303	2011-03-02
Oracle Linux version 5 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2011-2010	2011-03-16
Oracle Linux version 5 (ocfs2-2.6.18-238.5.1.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2011-0303	2011-03-02
Oracle Linux version 5 (ofa-2.6.32-100.28.9.el5)	ELSA-2011-2010	2011-03-16
Oracle Linux version 5 (oracleasm-2.6.18-238.5.1.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2011-0303	2011-03-02
Oracle Linux version 6 (kernel)	ELSA-2011-0007	2011-02-12
Oracle Linux version 6 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2011-2010	2011-03-16

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