CVE-2005-2548 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2005-2548
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Description: vlan_dev.c in the VLAN code for Linux kernel 2.6.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel oops from null dereference) via certain UDP packets that lead to a function call with the wrong argument, as demonstrated using snmpwalk on snmpd.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: UBUNTU http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-169-1 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA18056 Secunia Advisory: SA17826 MANDRIVA http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:219 MANDRAKE http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:219 DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-922 CONFIRM http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=309308 http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/bridge/2004-September/000638.html BID 14611

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