CVE-2008-5713

CVE-2008-5713 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The __qdisc_run function in net/sched/sch_generic.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.25 on SMP machines allows local users to cause a denial of service (soft lockup) by sending a large amount of network traffic, as demonstrated by multiple simultaneous invocations of the Netperf benchmark application in UDP_STREAM mode.

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