CVE-2010-4161 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2010-4161?

CVE-2010-4161 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 30 Dec 2010. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The udp_queue_rcv_skb function in net/ipv4/udp.c in a certain Red Hat build of the Linux kernel 2.6.18 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (deadlock and system hang) by sending UDP traffic to a socket that has a crafted socket filter, a related issue to CVE-2010-4158.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-4161?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Linux kernel, Redhat Enterprise Linux.

How do I fix CVE-2010-4161?

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-2010-4161 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-4161 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-jch4-5383-w2vq.