CVE-2005-3858 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2005-3858
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Description: Memory leak in the ip6_input_finish function in ip6_input.c in Linux kernel 2.6.12 and earlier might allow attackers to cause a denial of service via malformed IPv6 packets with unspecified parameter problems, which prevents the SKB from being freed.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: UBUNTU http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-231-1 SUSE http://lists.suse.de/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Feb/0010.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA19038 Secunia Advisory: SA19374 Secunia Advisory: SA19369 Secunia Advisory: SA18203 Secunia Advisory: SA18510 Secunia Advisory: SA18562 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0140.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html MLIST http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112533899509033&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112508479120081&w=2 DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1017 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1018 BID 16043

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