CVE-2005-3806 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2005-3806
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Description: The IPv6 flow label handling code (ip6_flowlabel.c) in Linux kernels 2.4 up to 2.4.32 and 2.6 before 2.6.14 modifies the wrong variable in certain circumstances, which allows local users to corrupt kernel memory or cause a denial of service (crash) by triggering a free of non-allocated memory.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: UBUNTU http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-231-1 SUSE http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/419522/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/9806 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA19369 Secunia Advisory: SA19374 Secunia Advisory: SA18977 Secunia Advisory: SA18684 Secunia Advisory: SA18562 Secunia Advisory: SA18510 Secunia Advisory: SA18203 Secunia Advisory: SA17917 Secunia Advisory: SA17918 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0191.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0190.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0140.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html MANDRIVA http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:072 http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:018 http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:044 FEDORA http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/428058/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/428028/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/427981/100/0/threaded DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1017 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1018 CONFIRM http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blobdiff;h=bbbe80cdaf72a75a463aff9551e60b31e2f69061;hp=f841bde30c18493a94fd5d522b84724a8eb82a4a;hb=4ea6a8046bb49d43c950898f0cb4e1994ef6c89d;f=net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4ea6a8046bb49d43c950898f0cb4e1994ef6c89d BID 15729

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