Security Advisory

CVE-2008-2136

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-05-16 06:54:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 08:49:58
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.