CVE

Id
46833  
CVE No.
CVE-2010-4249  
Status
Candidate  
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.  
Phase
Assigned (20101116)  
Votes
None (candidate not yet proposed)  
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