Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2010-4251 First vendor Publication 2011-05-26
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2023-02-13

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Overall CVSS Score 7.5
Base Score 7.5 Environmental Score 7.5
impact SubScore 3.6 Temporal Score 7.5
Exploitabality Sub Score 3.9
 
Attack Vector Network Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None Availability Impact High
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 7.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-4251

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20421
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:20421
Title: VMware ESX third party updates for Service Console packages glibc and dhcp
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.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2010-4251
Version: 4
Platform(s): VMWare ESX Server 4.1
VMWare ESX Server 4.0
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Os 1290
Os 1
Os 2

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-07-30 Name : CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2011:0303 centos5 x86_64
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2011_0303_kernel_centos5_x86_64.nasl
2012-06-06 Name : RedHat Update for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 kernel RHSA-2011:0542-01
File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2011_0542-01_Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_6.1_kernel.nasl
2012-03-16 Name : VMSA-2011-0012.3 VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third party libraries and ESX...
File : nvt/gb_VMSA-2011-0012.nasl
2011-09-30 Name : Ubuntu Update for linux-ec2 USN-1216-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1216_1.nasl
2011-09-30 Name : Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1218-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1218_1.nasl
2011-09-16 Name : Ubuntu Update for linux-mvl-dove USN-1203-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1203_1.nasl
2011-09-16 Name : Ubuntu Update for linux-fsl-imx51 USN-1204-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1204_1.nasl
2011-09-16 Name : Ubuntu Update for linux-mvl-dove USN-1208-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1208_1.nasl
2011-08-09 Name : CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2011:0303 centos5 i386
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2011_0303_kernel_centos5_i386.nasl
2011-05-06 Name : SuSE Update for kernel SUSE-SA:2011:020
File : nvt/gb_suse_2011_020.nasl
2011-03-07 Name : RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2011:0303-01
File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2011_0303-01_kernel.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
71660 Linux Kernel net/core/sock.c Networking Subsystem Packet Handling Backlog Rem...

Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM)

Date Description
2011-10-27 IAVM : 2011-A-0147 - Multiple Vulnerabilities in VMware ESX and ESXi
Severity : Category I - VMSKEY : V0030545

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-03-04 Name : The remote VMware ESX / ESXi host is missing a security-related patch.
File : vmware_VMSA-2011-0012_remote.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-06-13 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_3_kernel-110414.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-11-13 Name : The remote VMware ESXi 5.0 host is affected by multiple security vulnerabilit...
File : vmware_esxi_5_0_build_515841_remote.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2011-0303.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2011-2016.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-01-24 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2011-0883.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-01 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20110301_kernel_on_SL5_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-01 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20110519_kernel_on_SL6_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-05-17 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_kernel-7515.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-12-13 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_kernel-7516.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-10-14 Name : The remote VMware ESXi / ESX host is missing one or more security-related pat...
File : vmware_VMSA-2011-0012.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-09-30 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-1218-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-09-27 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1216-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-09-15 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1208-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-09-14 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1203-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-09-14 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-1204-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-06-30 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_kernel-7568.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-05-20 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2011-0542.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-04-28 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_11_kernel-110415.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-04-28 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_11_kernel-110414.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-04-15 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2011-0303.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-03-02 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2011-0303.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46637
BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded
CONFIRM http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.34
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=657303
MISC http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3...
MLIST http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2010/3/3/6271093/thread
SECUNIA http://secunia.com/advisories/46397

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