{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2008-03-28T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: soft lockup occurs when network load is very high",
    "id" : "477744",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477744"
  },
  "details" : [ "The __qdisc_run function in net/sched/sch_generic.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.25 on SMP machines allows local users to cause a denial of service (soft lockup) by sending a large amount of network traffic, as demonstrated by multiple simultaneous invocations of the Netperf benchmark application in UDP_STREAM mode." ],
  "statement" : "This issue did not affect the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, and Red Hat Enterprise MRG.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2009-02-10T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:0264",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.18-128.1.1.el5"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-5713\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5713" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2008-5713",
  "csaw" : false
}