CVE-2023-52340 Information

Description

The IPv6 implementation in the Linux kernel before 6.3 has a net/ipv6/route.c max_size threshold that can be consumed easily e.g. leading to a denial of service (network is unreachable errors) when IPv6 packets are sent in a loop via a raw socket.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit?id=af6d10345ca76670c1b7c37799f0d5576ccef277 https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.3