CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-2136

Published: May 16, 2008 | Modified: Oct 31, 2018
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.8 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW

Memory leak in the ipip6_rcv function in net/ipv6/sit.c in the Linux kernel 2.4 before 2.4.36.5 and 2.6 before 2.6.25.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via network traffic to a Simple Internet Transition (SIT) tunnel interface, related to the pskb_may_pull and kfree_skb functions, and management of an skb reference count.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux 2.4.0 (including) 2.4.36.5 (excluding)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.0 (including) 2.6.25.3 (excluding)
Linux Ubuntu hardy *
Linux Ubuntu upstream *
Linux-source-2.6.15 Ubuntu dapper *
Linux-source-2.6.15 Ubuntu upstream *
Linux-source-2.6.20 Ubuntu feisty *
Linux-source-2.6.20 Ubuntu upstream *
Linux-source-2.6.22 Ubuntu gutsy *
Linux-source-2.6.22 Ubuntu upstream *
MRG for RHEL-5 RedHat kernel-rt-0:2.6.24.7-74.el5rt *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 RedHat kernel-0:2.4.18-e.67 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 RedHat kernel-0:2.4.9-e.74 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 RedHat kernel-0:2.4.21-58.EL *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 RedHat kernel-0:2.6.9-67.0.22.EL *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RedHat kernel-0:2.6.18-92.1.10.el5 *

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