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CVE-2009-4272

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 11.05%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2010-01-27 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2009-4272
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
11.05%
Linux

Original NVD Description

A certain Red Hat patch for net/ipv4/route.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (deadlock) via crafted packets that force collisions in the IPv4 routing hash table, and trigger a routing "emergency" in which a hash chain is too long. NOTE: this is related to an issue in the Linux kernel before 2.6.31, when the kernel routing cache is disabled, involving an uninitialized pointer and a panic.