CVE-2006-0036 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2006-0036
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Description: ip_nat_pptp in the PPTP NAT helper (netfilter/ip_nat_helper_pptp.c) in Linux kernel 2.6.14, and other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) via an inbound PPTP_IN_CALL_REQUEST packet that causes a null pointer to be used in an offset calculation.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/24203 TRUSTIX http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0004 SREASON http://securityreason.com/securityalert/388 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA18482 CONFIRM http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=15db34702cfafd24acc60295cf14861e497502ab BID 16414

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