CVE-2004-1016 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2004-1016?

CVE-2004-1016 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 15 Dec 2004. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The scm_send function in the scm layer for Linux kernel 2.4.x up to 2.4.28, and 2.6.x up to 2.6.9, allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) via crafted auxiliary messages that are passed to the sendmsg function, which causes a deadlock condition.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2004-1016?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Linux kernel, Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux.

How do I fix CVE-2004-1016?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2004-1016 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2004-1016 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

• CVE record
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• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-xx2p-5w38-cw49.