CVE-2008-5713 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git;a=commit;h=2ba2506ca7ca62c56edaa334b0fe61eb5eab6ab0 http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.25 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/23/1 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0264.html http://secunia.com/advisories/33706 http://secunia.com/advisories/33858 http://secunia.com/advisories/35011 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1794 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32985 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477744 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9385 https://usn.ubuntu.com/714-1/