CVE-2005-3806

medium

Description

The IPv6 flow label handling code (ip6_flowlabel.c) in Linux kernels 2.4 up to 2.4.32 and 2.6 before 2.6.14 modifies the wrong variable in certain circumstances, which allows local users to corrupt kernel memory or cause a denial of service (crash) by triggering a free of non-allocated memory.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/231-1/

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9903

http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:044

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15729

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/428058/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/428028/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427981/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419522/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/9806

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0191.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0190.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0140.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:072

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:018

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1018

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1017

http://secunia.com/advisories/19374

http://secunia.com/advisories/19369

http://secunia.com/advisories/18977

http://secunia.com/advisories/18684

http://secunia.com/advisories/18562

http://secunia.com/advisories/18510

http://secunia.com/advisories/18203

http://secunia.com/advisories/17918

http://secunia.com/advisories/17917

http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4ea6a8046bb49d43c950898f0cb4e1994ef6c89d

http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=blobdiff%3Bh=bbbe80cdaf72a75a463aff9551e60b31e2f69061%3Bhp=f841bde30c18493a94fd5d522b84724a8eb82a4a%3Bhb=4ea6a8046bb49d43c950898f0cb4e1994ef6c89d%3Bf=net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2005-11-25

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium