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Tracker / CVE-2010-4251

CVE-2010-4251

High 7.5

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.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · … → 2.6.34
redhat enterprise_linux
vmware esx

Analysis

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