Published: 05/04/2015 Updated: 07/11/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 10

VMScore: 695

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

The IPv4 implementation in the Linux kernel prior to 3.18.8 does not properly consider the length of the Read-Copy Update (RCU) grace period for redirecting lookups in the absence of caching, which allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or system crash) via a flood of packets.

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Several security issues were fixed in the kernel ...

The IPv4 implementation in the Linux kernel before 3188 does not properly consider the length of the Read-Copy Update (RCU) grace period for redirecting lookups in the absence of caching, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or system crash) via a flood of packets ...

CWE-17 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1183744 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/df4d92549f23e1c037e83323aff58a21b3de7fe0 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/03/13 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.18.8 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2545-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2546-1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72435 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00009.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00008.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00011.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2563-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2562-1 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=df4d92549f23e1c037e83323aff58a21b3de7fe0 https://nvd.nist.gov https://usn.ubuntu.com/2562-1/https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-1465

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