{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "cve@mitre.org", "ID": "CVE-2010-4805", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "n/a", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "n/a" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "n/a" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "The socket implementation in net/core/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.35 does not properly manage a backlog of received packets, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by sending a large amount of network traffic, related to the sk_add_backlog function and the sk_rmem_alloc socket field. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2010-4251." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "[netdev] 20100302 [PATCH 1/8] net: add limit for socket backlog", "refsource": "MLIST", "url": "http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2010/3/3/6271093/thread" }, { "name": "http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.35", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.35" }, { "name": "http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c377411f2494a931ff7facdbb3a6839b1266bcf6", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c377411f2494a931ff7facdbb3a6839b1266bcf6" }, { "name": "46637", "refsource": "BID", "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46637" }, { "name": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657303", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657303" } ] } }