Bug 174343
| Summary: | CVE-2005-3858 ip6_input_finish DoS | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | Mark J. Cox <mjc> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Thomas Graf <tgraf> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 4.0 | CC: | davem, jbaron, rkhan |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | public=20050826,reported=20051128,source=cve,impact=important | ||
| Fixed In Version: | RHSA-2006-0101 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2006-01-17 08:36:14 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
| Embargoed: | |||
| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 168430 | ||
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 |
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