Security Advisory

CVE-2010-4249

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2010-11-29 15:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 03:34:37
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

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.