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CVE-2010-4249

Description

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.

POC

Reference

- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html

- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html

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