CVE-2018-5391

NameCVE-2018-5391
DescriptionThe 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-1466-1, DLA-1529-1, DLA-1715-1, DSA-4272-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
linux (PTS)buster4.19.249-2fixed
buster (security)4.19.304-1fixed
bullseye5.10.209-2fixed
bullseye (security)5.10.205-2fixed
bookworm6.1.76-1fixed
bookworm (security)6.1.69-1fixed
trixie6.6.15-2fixed
sid6.7.9-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
linuxsourcejessie3.16.59-1DLA-1529-1
linuxsourcestretch4.9.110-3+deb9u2DSA-4272-1
linuxsource(unstable)4.17.15-1
linux-4.9sourcejessie4.9.144-3.1~deb8u1DLA-1715-1

Notes

Mitigation: Change the default values of net.ipv4.ipfrag_high_thresh and
net.ipv4.ipfrag_low_thresh back to 256kB and 192 kB (respectively) or
below.

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