{"cve":"CVE-2010-4249","nvd":{"published":"2010-11-29T16:00:04.213","modified":"2026-06-16T23:24:26.177","status":"Modified","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.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":["CWE-400"],"references":["http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9915672d41273f5b77f1b3c29b391ffb7732b84b","http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052513.html","http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/23/395","http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/23/450","http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/25/8"],"products":["fedoraproject:fedora","linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T19:57:56.749847046+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2010-4249","score":0.00888,"percentile":0.59327,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}