CVE-2010-4251
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2011-05-26 16:00
Modified
2024-08-07 03:34
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8eae939f1400326b06d0c9afe53d2a484a326871
secalert@redhat.comhttp://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2010/3/3/6271093/threadBroken Link
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/46397Broken Link
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.34Broken Link
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threadedThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46637Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657303Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
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