CVE-2018-5391

The Linux kernel, versions 3.9+, is vulnerable to a denial of service attack with low rates of specially modified packets targeting IP fragment re-assembly. An attacker may cause a denial of service condition by sending specially crafted IP fragments. Various vulnerabilities in IP fragmentation have been discovered and fixed over the years. The current vulnerability (CVE-2018-5391) became exploitable in the Linux kernel with the increase of the IP fragment reassembly queue size.

Score
CVSS 3.1 7.5 High
Status
Modified - cret@cert.org
Published
2018-09-06
Last modified
2024-08-05
Weaknesses
CWE-20, CWE-400

Affected products

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