EDB-16952

PoC

Linux Kernel < 2.6.37-rc2 - 'TCP_MAXSEG' Kernel Panic (Denial of Service) (2)

view exploit source exploit_dbtype dosauthor zx2c4published 2011-03-10catalog exploit_db

exploited CVEs (1)

Known CVEs related to this entry.

ID	severity	EPSS	exploitable	published
CVE-2010-4165US	medium4.9	1.48% (74th)	Exploit	2010-11-22
The do_tcp_setsockopt function in net/ipv4/tcp.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc2 does not properly restrict TCP_MAXSEG (aka MSS) values, which allows local users to cause a d…

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