Security Advisory

CVE-2005-3858

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2005-11-27 22:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 23:24:36
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.