CVE-2010-4249

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

0.89% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 56.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

The NVD has published no score for this record

NVD CVSS vector

No NVD score to derive

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.

Red Hat severity

Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2010-11-29 15:00Z15 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-07 03:34Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2010-11-16

Assigning CNA

redhat

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-400Uncontrolled Resource ConsumptionClass

Data version

5.1

Document digest

6eb6e84c68c7c613b16e070fa9c7720c07e1fabf44ecb29bc0ddd76400e432e4

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• www.securityfocus.com20111013 VMSA-2011-0012 VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third party libraries and ESX Service Consolehttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threadedmailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
• secunia.com46397http://secunia.com/advisories/46397third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20101124 Re: CVE request: kernel: unix socket local doshttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/10mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2010-18983http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052513.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
• www.securityfocus.com45037http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45037vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• www.redhat.comRHSA-2011:0007http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20101124 CVE request: kernel: unix socket local doshttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/2mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• lkml.org[linux-kernel] 20101123 Unix socket local DOS (OOM)http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/23/395mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656756x_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.vupen.comADV-2010-3321http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3321vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
• secunia.com42963http://secunia.com/advisories/42963third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
• lkml.org[linux-kernel] 20101125 Simple kernel attack using socketpair. easy, 100% reproductiblle, works under guest. no way to protect :(http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/25/8mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.vmware.comhttp://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRM
• marc.info[netdev] 20101124 [PATCH] af_unix: limit unix_tot_inflighthttp://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=129059035929046&w=2mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• secunia.com42890http://secunia.com/advisories/42890third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
• www.redhat.comRHSA-2011:0162http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0162.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
• git.kernel.orghttp://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9915672d41273f5b77f1b3c29b391ffb7732b84bx_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.exploit-db.com15622http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15622/exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
• www.vupen.comADV-2011-0168http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0168vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
• secunia.com42745http://secunia.com/advisories/42745third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
• www.kernel.orghttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/next/patch-v2.6.37-rc3-next-20101125.bz2x_refsource_CONFIRM
• lkml.org[linux-kernel] 20101124 [PATCH net-next-2.6] scm: lower SCM_MAX_FDhttp://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/23/450mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST