CVE-2010-4251 vulnerability in Linux and Other Products
Published on May 26, 2011
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.
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Exploit Probability
EPSS
2.15%
Percentile
83.98%
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