CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2005-3274

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Oct 21, 2005 | Modified: Jan 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
4.7
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
1.2 LOW
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Race condition in ip_vs_conn_flush in Linux 2.6 before 2.6.13 and 2.4 before 2.4.32-pre2, when running on SMP systems, allows local users to cause a denial of service (null dereference) by causing a connection timer to expire while the connection table is being flushed before the appropriate lock is acquired.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux 2.4.0 (including) 2.4.31 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.0 (including) 2.6.13 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References