CVE-2010-4805: Linux Kernel
High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
The socket implementation in net/core/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.35 does not properly manage a backlog of received packets, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by sending a large amount of network traffic, related to the sk_add_backlog function and the sk_rmem_alloc socket field. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2010-4251.
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Published 2011-05-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.