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CVE-2010-4249 (GCVE-0-2010-4249)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2010-11-29 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 03:34
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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Date Public
2010-11-23 00:00
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