CVE-2005-4635 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2005-4635
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Description: The nl_fib_input function in fib_frontend.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.15 does not check for valid lengths of the header and payload, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memory reference) via malformed fib_lookup netlink messages.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_06_kernel.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA18216 Secunia Advisory: SA18788 MISC http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ea86575eaf99a9262a969309d934318028dbfacb CONFIRM http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.15 BID 16139

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