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DoS Hole Found in Linux Kernel

theciscokid · 2003-05-15 22:13:32

from http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article.php/2207021 as it says on that site, red hat has issued update patches 7.1 to 9

15-05-2003 10:13pm

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"By flooding a Linux system with packets with spoofed source addresses, the handling of the cache will consume large amounts of CPU power. This could potentially bring a Linux system offline with a rate of only 400 packets per second by using carefully chosen source addresses that causes hash collisions in the table,"

from http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article.php/2207021

as it says on that site, red hat has issued update patches 7.1 to 9

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