Security Advisory

CVE-2006-2446

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2006-08-15 22:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 17:51:04
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

Race condition between the kfree_skb and __skb_unlink functions in the socket buffer handling in Linux kernel 2.6.9, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), as demonstrated using the TCP stress tests from the LTP test suite.