CVE-2010-4249

CVSS V2 Medium 4.9 CVSS V3 None
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2010-4249
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2010-11-29T16:00:04
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2023-02-13T04:28:24
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-400 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/400.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2.6.37
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.37:-:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.37:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.37:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:13:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Base Score
  • 4.9
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 6.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/2 Exploit Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/10 Exploit Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/next/patch-v2.6.37-rc3-next-20101125.bz2 Broken Link
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=129059035929046&w=2 Exploit Mailing List Patch
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9915672d41273f5b77f1b3c29b391ffb7732b84b Broken Link
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45037 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/23/450 Patch Third Party Advisory
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/25/8 Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15622/ Exploit Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656756 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/23/395 Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/42354 Third Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052513.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3321 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/42745 Third Party Advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0162.html Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/42963 Third Party Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0168 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/42890 Third Party Advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 Third Party Advisory
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4249
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-4249
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 17:21:42 Added to TrackCVE
2023-02-13 05:04:00 2023-02-13T04:28:24 CVE Modified Date updated
2023-02-13 05:04:00 Analyzed Modified Vulnerability Status updated