Race condition vulnerability in ip_vs_conn_flush in Linux 2.6 and 2.4 allows for denial of service

Race condition vulnerability in ip_vs_conn_flush in Linux 2.6 and 2.4 allows for denial of service

CVE-2005-3274 · MEDIUM Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Race condition in ip_vs_conn_flush in Linux 2.6 before 2.6.13 and 2.4 before 2.4.32-pre2, when running on SMP systems, allows local users to cause a denial of service (null dereference) by causing a connection timer to expire while the connection table is being flushed before the appropriate lock is acquired.

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