CVE-2010-4161: Linux Kernel
Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
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Published 2010-12-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.