Security Advisory

CVE-2010-4161

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2010-12-30 18:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 03:34:37
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

The udp_queue_rcv_skb function in net/ipv4/udp.c in a certain Red Hat build of the Linux kernel 2.6.18 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (deadlock and system hang) by sending UDP traffic to a socket that has a crafted socket filter, a related issue to CVE-2010-4158.