Bug 1617843 (CVE-2005-3858) - CVE-2005-3858 security flaw
Summary: CVE-2005-3858 security flaw
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2005-3858
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2018-08-16 04:51 UTC by Stephen Herr
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:54 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-08-16 04:51:28 UTC
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Description Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 04:51:22 UTC 
Flaw bug created to hold information about an old flaw we knew something about. For more details see the MITRE CVE description.
Comment 1 Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 16:34:12 UTC 
MITRE description:

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.
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