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MEDIUM

security flaw

Published Jun 5, 2003

Description

The TCP/IP fragment reassembly handling in the Linux kernel 2.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via certain packets that cause a large number of hash table collisions.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (14)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Jun 5, 2003
Updated Aug 8, 2024
Reserved May 30, 2003
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Important
Public date Jun 3, 2003