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Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.51.0812241158430.12707@faron.mitre.org> Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:58:48 -0500 (EST) From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org> To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org> Subject: Re: CVE request: kernel: soft lockup occurs when network load is very high ====================================================== Name: CVE-2008-5713 Status: Candidate URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5713 Reference: MLIST:[oss-security] 20081223 CVE request: kernel: soft lockup occurs when network load is very high Reference: URL:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/23/1 Reference: CONFIRM:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git;a=commit;h=2ba2506ca7ca62c56edaa334b0fe61eb5eab6ab0 Reference: CONFIRM:http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.25 Reference: CONFIRM:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477744 Reference: BID:32985 Reference: URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32985 The __qdisc_run function in net/sched/sch_generic.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.25 on SMP machines allows local users to cause a denial of service (soft lockup) by sending a large amount of network traffic, as demonstrated by multiple simultaneous invocations of the Netperf benchmark application in UDP_STREAM mode.
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