Denial Of Service (DoS)

The kernel vulnerable to denial of service DoS. The Parallels Virtuozzo Containers team reported the RHSA-2009:1243 update introduced two flaws in the routing implementation. If an attacker was able to cause a large enough number of collisions in the routing hash table via specially-crafted packe...

CVE-2009-4272: Improper Locking

A certain Red Hat patch for net/ipv4/route.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service deadlock via crafted packets that force collisions in the IPv4 routing hash table, and trigger a routing "emergency" in which a hash chai...