CVE - CVE-2010-4249

CVE-ID
CVE-2010-4249	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
Note: References are provided for the convenience of the reader to help distinguish between vulnerabilities. The list is not intended to be complete.
MISC:15622 URL:http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15622/ MISC:20111013 VMSA-2011-0012 VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third party libraries and ESX Service Console URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded MISC:42354 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/42354 MISC:42745 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/42745 MISC:42890 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/42890 MISC:42963 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/42963 MISC:45037 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45037 MISC:46397 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 MISC:ADV-2010-3321 URL:~~http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3321~~ (Obsolete source) MISC:ADV-2011-0168 URL:~~http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0168~~ (Obsolete source) MISC:FEDORA-2010-18983 URL:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052513.html MISC:RHSA-2011:0007 URL:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html MISC:RHSA-2011:0162 URL:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0162.html MISC:[linux-kernel] 20101123 Unix socket local DOS (OOM) URL:http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/23/395 MISC:[linux-kernel] 20101124 [PATCH net-next-2.6] scm: lower SCM_MAX_FD URL:http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/23/450 MISC:[linux-kernel] 20101125 Simple kernel attack using socketpair. easy, 100% reproductiblle, works under guest. no way to protect :( URL:http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/25/8 MISC:[netdev] 20101124 [PATCH] af_unix: limit unix_tot_inflight URL:http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=129059035929046&w=2 MISC:[oss-security] 20101124 CVE request: kernel: unix socket local dos URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/2 MISC:[oss-security] 20101124 Re: CVE request: kernel: unix socket local dos URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/10 MISC:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9915672d41273f5b77f1b3c29b391ffb7732b84b URL:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9915672d41273f5b77f1b3c29b391ffb7732b84b MISC:http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/next/patch-v2.6.37-rc3-next-20101125.bz2 URL:http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/next/patch-v2.6.37-rc3-next-20101125.bz2 MISC:http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html URL:http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html MISC:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656756 URL:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656756
Assigning CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Date Record Created
20101116	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20101116)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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