Candidate: CVE-2008-5713
PublicDate: 2008-12-24 18:29:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5713
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-714-1
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.
Ubuntu-Description:
 It was discovered that in certain situations the network scheduler did
 not correctly handle very large levels of traffic.  A local attacker
 could produce a high volume of UDP traffic resulting in a system hang,
 leading to a denial of service.
Notes:
Bugs:
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS: 

Patches_linux-source-2.6.15:
upstream_linux-source-2.6.15: needs-triage
dapper_linux-source-2.6.15: released (2.6.15-53.75)
gutsy_linux-source-2.6.15: DNE
hardy_linux-source-2.6.15: DNE
intrepid_linux-source-2.6.15: DNE
devel_linux-source-2.6.15: DNE

Patches_linux-source-2.6.22:
upstream_linux-source-2.6.22: needs-triage
dapper_linux-source-2.6.22: DNE
gutsy_linux-source-2.6.22: released (2.6.22-16.61)
hardy_linux-source-2.6.22: DNE
intrepid_linux-source-2.6.22: DNE
devel_linux-source-2.6.22: DNE

Patches_linux:
upstream_linux: needs-triage
dapper_linux: DNE
gutsy_linux: DNE
hardy_linux: released (2.6.24-23.48)
intrepid_linux: not-affected
devel_linux: not-affected