CVE-2003-0364: Red Hat Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The TCP/IP fragment reassembly handling in the Linux kernel 2.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via certain packets that cause a large number of hash table collisions.

Affected products

• Red Hat Linux: version 7.1 only; version 7.2 only; version 7.3 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only

Published 2003-06-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.