CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-2446

Published: Aug 15, 2006 | Modified: Oct 11, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
5.4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Race condition between the kfree_skb and __skb_unlink functions in the socket buffer handling in Linux kernel 2.6.9, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), as demonstrated using the TCP stress tests from the LTP test suite.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.9-2.6.20 (including) 2.6.9-2.6.20 (including)

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