GHSA-g6g8-jgp3-m382

GHSA-g6g8-jgp3-m382 PUBLISHED CVSS 6.900000095367432 MEDIUM

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 13, 2022

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.

Risk scores

CVSS 4.0

6.900000095367432

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Timeline

May 13, 2022 CVE Published
Apr 30, 2026 Security Advisory

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vulnetix vdb vuln GHSA-g6g8-jgp3-m382
vulnetix vdb fixes GHSA-g6g8-jgp3-m382

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  "https://api.vdb.vulnetix.com/v2/vuln/GHSA-g6g8-jgp3-m382/fixes/registry"

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