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CVE-2010-4805
Published: May 26, 2011
Modified: Sep 17, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
The socket implementation in net/core/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.35 does not properly manage a backlog of received packets, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by sending a large amount of network traffic, related to the sk_add_backlog function and the sk_rmem_alloc socket field. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2010-4251.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
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References
[netdev] 20100302 [PATCH 1/8] net: add limit for socket backlog
mailing-list
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http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.35
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46637
vdb-entry
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657303
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