{"document":{"aggregate_severity":{"namespace":"https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/","text":"important"},"category":"csaf_vex","csaf_version":"2.0","distribution":{"text":"Copyright 2024 SUSE LLC. All rights reserved.","tlp":{"label":"WHITE","url":"https://www.first.org/tlp/"}},"lang":"en","notes":[{"category":"summary","text":"SUSE CVE-2009-4272","title":"Title"},{"category":"description","text":"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.","title":"Description of the CVE"},{"category":"legal_disclaimer","text":"CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).","title":"Terms of use"}],"publisher":{"category":"vendor","contact_details":"https://www.suse.com/support/security/contact/","name":"SUSE Product Security Team","namespace":"https://www.suse.com/"},"references":[{"category":"external","summary":"CVE-2009-4272","url":"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-4272"},{"category":"external","summary":"SUSE Security Ratings","url":"https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/"},{"category":"external","summary":"SUSE Bug 572190 for CVE-2009-4272","url":"https://bugzilla.suse.com/572190"}],"title":"SUSE CVE CVE-2009-4272","tracking":{"current_release_date":"2025-07-08T00:31:55Z","generator":{"date":"2023-02-15T06:01:30Z","engine":{"name":"cve-database.git:bin/generate-csaf-vex.pl","version":"1"}},"id":"CVE-2009-4272","initial_release_date":"2023-02-15T06:01:30Z","revision_history":[{"date":"2023-02-15T06:01:30Z","number":"2","summary":"Current version"},{"date":"2025-07-08T00:31:55Z","number":"3","summary":"Current version"}],"status":"interim","version":"3"}}}