The Linux kernel is vulnerable to a crash on hosts that accept router
advertisements. An unlimited number of routes can be created from
router advertisements.
A remote attacker in the same layer 2 segment can cause a crash from
memory exhaustion by flooding router advertisements to a target
machine.
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/?id=c88507fbad8055297c1d1e21e599f46960cbee39
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/327515/
diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
index 11dac21e6586..fba54a407bb2 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -1513,7 +1513,7 @@ int ip6_route_add(struct fib6_config *cfg)
if (!table)
goto out;
- rt = ip6_dst_alloc(net, NULL, DST_NOCOUNT, table);
+ rt = ip6_dst_alloc(net, NULL, (cfg->fc_flags & RTF_ADDRCONF) ? 0 : DST_NOCOUNT, table);
if (!rt) {
err = -ENOMEM;
