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MEDIUM

security flaw

Published Mar 18, 2005

Description

Netfilter in the Linux kernel 2.6.8.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via certain packet fragments that are reassembled twice, which causes a data structure to be allocated twice.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

References (18)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Mar 18, 2005
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Feb 1, 2005
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Jan 30, 2005