Tracker / CVE-2009-0778
CVE-2009-0778
High 7.1
The icmp_send function in net/ipv4/icmp.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.25, when configured as a router with a REJECT route, does not properly manage the Protocol Independent Destination Cache (aka DST) in some situations involving transmission of an ICMP Host Unreachable message, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connectivity outage) by sending a large series of packets to many destination IP addresses within this REJECT route, related to an "rt_cache leak."
Affected products and versions
| linux | linux_kernel |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel · … → 2.6.24.7 |
| vmware | esx |
| vmware | server |
| vmware | vcenter |
| vmware | virtualcenter |
| vmware | vma |
Analysis
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