CVE-2008-2136
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.8 · CWE-399
7.8CVSS HIGH
Summary
Memory leak in the ipip6_rcv function in net/ipv6/sit.c in the Linux kernel 2.4 before 2.4.36.5 and 2.6 before 2.6.25.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via network traffic to a Simple Internet Transition (SIT) tunnel interface, related to the pskb_may_pull and kfree_skb functions, and management of an skb reference count.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)5%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.25.3Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-06/msg00006.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00002.htmlAdvisory
- http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=121031533024912&w=2Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30198Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30241Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30276Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30368Advisory