CVE-2008-5713 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2008-5713?

CVE-2008-5713 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 24 Dec 2008. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-5713?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2008-5713?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2008-5713 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2008-5713 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-mv9w-4qcx-3jmc.