CVE-2023-1206

Description

A hash collision flaw was found in the IPv6 connection lookup table in the Linux kernel’s IPv6 functionality when a user makes a new kind of SYN flood attack. A user located in the local network or with a high bandwidth connection can increase the CPU usage of the server that accepts IPV6 connections up to 95%.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5492

https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5480

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230929-0006/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/01/msg00004.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00027.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2175903

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3