CVE-2010-4251 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Kernel
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
2.1%
top 15.74%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMay 26
Latest updateMay 13
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages2 packages
Also affects: Enterprise Linux 4.0