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CVE-2010-4251

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Date: May 26, 2011

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.

Language: C

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Related Resources (12)

http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2010/3/3/6271093/thread
http://secunia.com/advisories/46397
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8eae939f1400326b06d0c9afe53d2a484a326871
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-4251
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46637
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.34
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4251
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2010-4251
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657303
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2010-4251

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')

CWE-400

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): COMPLETE
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