CVE
- Id
- 46835
- CVE No.
- CVE-2010-4251
- Status
- Candidate
- 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.
- Phase
- Assigned (20101116)
- Votes
- None (candidate not yet proposed)
- Comments