VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2010-4249

CVSS score4.9 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.89%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2010-11-29
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Primary references