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Bug 174343

Summary: CVE-2005-3858 ip6_input_finish DoS
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component: kernelAssignee: Thomas Graf <tgraf>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 4.0CC: davem, jbaron, rkhan
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: public=20050826,reported=20051128,source=cve,impact=important
Fixed In Version: RHSA-2006-0101 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-01-17 08:36:14 UTC Type: ---
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Description Mark J. Cox 2005-11-28 10:51:22 UTC
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.

fix:
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset@43038a36yqEFo2e8h2xX_8mCr4iSqg

discussion:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112508479120081&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112533899509033&w=2

Comment 7 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-01-17 08:36:14 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

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