Double Reassembly Vulnerability in Netfilter of Linux Kernel 2.6.8.1

CVE-2005-0210 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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.

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