CVE-2010-0741 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2010-0741?

CVE-2010-0741 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 12 Apr 2010. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The virtio_net_bad_features function in hw/virtio-net.c in the virtio-net driver in the Linux kernel before 2.6.26, when used on a guest OS in conjunction with qemu-kvm 0.11.0 or KVM 83, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash, and an associated qemu-kvm process exit) by sending a large amount of network traffic to a TCP port on the guest OS, related to a virtio-net whitelist that includes an improper implementation of TCP Segment Offloading (TSO).

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-0741?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2010-0741?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

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-2010-0741 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-0741 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-4pfr-xwjj-chc8.