The wait_for_unix_gc function in net/unix/garbage.c in the Linux kernel before...

Vulnerability 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.

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/42354
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded
• http://secunia.com/advisories/46397
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/10
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052513.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45037
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/24/2
• http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/23/395
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656756
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3321
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42963
• http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/25/8
• http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html
• http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=129059035929046&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42890
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0162.html
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9915672d41273f5b77f1b3c29b391ffb7732b84b
• http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15622/
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0168
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42745
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/next/patch-v2.6.37-rc3-next-20101125.bz2
• http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/23/450