Resource exhaustion in Linux Kernel
CVE-2010-4249
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.
Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.9 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.009 (57.7th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 58th percentile — 57.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.009 · newest: 0.009 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Linux Kernel — versions 2.6.37
- Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 13
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/42354 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded (mailing-list, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/46397 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/10 (mailing-list, Exploit, Patch, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052513.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/45037 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/2 (mailing-list, Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/23/395 (mailing-list, Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)