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.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2010-11-29T15:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-07T03:34:37.978Z
Reserved: 2010-11-16T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2010-4249
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2010-11-29T16:00:04.213
Modified: 2024-11-21T01:20:32.310
Link: CVE-2010-4249
Redhat