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CVE-2010-4161

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-4161 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in a specific Red Hat build of the Linux kernel 2.6.18, affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. An attacker can exploit this by sending crafted UDP traffic to a socket with a specially designed filter, leading to a system deadlock and hang. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.9, indicating a low attack complexity and local access requirement, but a complete impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.6.18CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.9MEDIUM

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.51%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
40.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0051 is in the 76th percentile among its peer group of 3,050 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: kernel-0:2.6.18-194.32.1.el5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-4161Moderate

kernel: rhel5 commit 6865201191 caused deadlock

Nov 10, 2010

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Patch
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Exploit
secunia.com / advisories/42789
secunia.com / advisories/46397
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/64497
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2011-0004.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/514845
Exploit
securityfocus.com / archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded
spinics.net / lists/netdev/msg146404.html
Patch
vmware.com / security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html
vupen.com / english/advisories/2011/0024