CVE - CVE-2010-4251

CVE-ID
CVE-2010-4251	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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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:46397 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 MISC:46637 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46637 MISC:[netdev] 20100302 [PATCH 1/8] net: add limit for socket backlog URL:http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2010/3/3/6271093/thread MISC:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8eae939f1400326b06d0c9afe53d2a484a326871 URL:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8eae939f1400326b06d0c9afe53d2a484a326871 MISC:http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.34 URL:http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.34 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=657303 URL:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657303
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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