Tracker / CVE-2008-5713
CVE-2008-5713
Medium 4.9
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.
Affected products and versions
| linux | linux_kernel |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel · … → 2.6.24.7 |
Analysis
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