CVE-2009-4272

kernel: emergency route cache flushing leads to node deadlock

Published Jan 27, 2010 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS 11.1% KEV · Not listed
Description
A certain Red Hat patch for net/ipv4/route.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (deadlock) via crafted packets that force collisions in the IPv4 routing hash table, and trigger a routing "emergency" in which a hash chain is too long. NOTE: this is related to an issue in the Linux kernel before 2.6.31, when the kernel routing cache is disabled, involving an uninitialized pointer and a panic.

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