CVE-2010-4161

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2010-11-10
IAVA:
2011-A-0147
Bugzilla:
652534: CVE-2010-4161 kernel: rhel5 commit 6865201191 caused deadlock

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The udp_queue_rcv_skb function in net/ipv4/udp.c in a certain Red Hat build of the Linux kernel 2.6.18 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (deadlock and system hang) by sending UDP traffic to a socket that has a crafted socket filter, a related issue to CVE-2010-4158.

Find out more about CVE-2010-4161 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue did not affect the version of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 as it did not backport the upstream commit 93821778 that introduced this. It did not affect the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG as they have backported the upstream commit fda9ef5d that addressed this. Future kernel update in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 may address this flaw.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4.9
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Complete

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (kernel) RHSA-2011:0004 2011-01-04

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Dan Rosenberg for reporting this issue.

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