CVE-2009-0778

Description

The icmp_send function in net/ipv4/icmp.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.25, when configured as a router with a REJECT route, does not properly manage the Protocol Independent Destination Cache (aka DST) in some situations involving transmission of an ICMP Host Unreachable message, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connectivity outage) by sending a large series of packets to many destination IP addresses within this REJECT route, related to an "rt_cache leak."

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7867

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10215

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49199

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021958

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34084

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507985/100/0/threaded

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/03/11/2

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7c0ecc4c4f8fd90988aab8a95297b9c0038b6160

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3