CVE-2005-3858

Description (CNA)

Memory leak in the ip6_input_finish function in ip6_input.c in Linux kernel 2.6.12 and earlier might allow attackers to cause a denial of service via malformed IPv6 packets with unspecified parameter problems, which prevents the SKB from being freed.

Affected (CNA)

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0140.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19038
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16043
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19369
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18203
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html
• http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=112533899509033&w=2
• http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1018
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18510
• http://lists.suse.de/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Feb/0010.html
• http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=112508479120081&w=2
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9396
• http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1017
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19374
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/231-1/
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18562

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