CVE-2010-4249: Fedoraproject Fedora

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The wait_for_unix_gc function in net/unix/garbage.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc3-next-20101125 does not properly select times for garbage collection of inflight sockets, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) via crafted use of the socketpair and sendmsg system calls for SOCK_SEQPACKET sockets.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 13 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: before 2.6.37 (fixed in 2.6.37); version 2.6.37 only

Published 2010-11-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.