CVE-2010-4251

Publication date

2011-05-26 16:00:00

Family

redhat

State

PUBLISHED

Description

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.