CVE-2010-4526

Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-01-11 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-362

Description

Race condition in the sctp_icmp_proto_unreachable function in net/sctp/input.c in Linux kernel 2.6.11-rc2 through 2.6.33 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) via an ICMP unreachable message to a socket that is already locked by a user, which causes the socket to be freed and triggers list corruption, related to the sctp_wait_for_connect function.

Affected products

Linux kernel: from 2.6.11.1 through 2.6.33; 2.6.11-rc2, 2.6.11-rc3, 2.6.11-rc4, 2.6.11-rc5
RedHat Enterprise Mrg: 1.0
VMware ESX: 4.0, 4.1

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=50b5d6ad63821cea324a5a7a19854d4de1a0a819
http://secunia.com/advisories/42964
http://secunia.com/advisories/46397
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/04/13
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/04/3
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0163.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45661
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0169
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-4526
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64616

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