CVEvulnerability

CVE-2003-0244

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2003-05-27 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2003-05-27
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

The route cache implementation in Linux 2.4, and the Netfilter IP conntrack module, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via packets with forged source addresses that cause a large number of hash table collisions.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel 2.4.0

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-407 Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity weakness

References