CVE-2014-0100 Information

Description

Race condition in the inet_frag_intern function in net/ipv4/inet_fragment.c in the Linux kernel through 3.13.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free error) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a large series of fragmented ICMP Echo Request packets to a system with a heavy CPU load.

Reference

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/325844/ http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/04/4 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1070618