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Bug 505662 (CVE-2014-2309)

Summary: Kernel: IPv6: crash due to router advertisement flooding (CVE-2014-2309)
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component: KernelAssignee: Gentoo Kernel Security <security-kernel>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: kernel
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2014-03-25 11:58:42 UTC
CVE-2014-2309 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-2309):

The ip6_route_add function in net/ipv6/route.c in the Linux kernel through 3.13.6 does not properly count 
the addition of routes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) 
via a flood of ICMPv6 Router Advertisement packets.
Comment 1 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2014-08-10 21:58:39 UTC
CVE-2014-2309 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-2309):
  The ip6_route_add function in net/ipv6/route.c in the Linux kernel through
  3.13.6 does not properly count the addition of routes, which allows remote
  attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a flood of
  ICMPv6 Router Advertisement packets.
Comment 2 John Helmert III archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2022-03-25 19:40:50 UTC
Fix in 3.14