Centos · Centos · CVE-2010-4249
**Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions**
Linux kernel versions 2.6.9
Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel versions 2.6.9
CentOS kernel versions 2.6.9
**Description**
The issue affects the Linux kernel and can lead to a disruption of confidentiality, integrity, and availability of protected information. Exploitation of the vulnerabilities can be done remotely. The wait for unix gc function in net/unix/garbage.c does not properly select times for garbage collection of inflight sockets, allowing local users to cause a denial of service via crafted use of the socketpair and sendmsg system calls for SOCK SEQPACKET sockets.
**Recommendations**
For Linux kernel version 2.6.9, update to a version after 2.6.37-rc3-next-20101125.
For Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel version 2.6.9, update to a version after 2.6.37-rc3-next-20101125.
For CentOS kernel version 2.6.9, update to a version after 2.6.37-rc3-next-20101125.
As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the vulnerable kernel functions until a patch is available.