The IPv6 flow label handling code (ip6_flowlabel.c) in Linux kernels 2.4 up to 2.4.32 and 2.6 before 2.6.14 modifies the wrong variable in certain circumstances, which allows local users to corrupt kernel memory or cause a denial of service (crash) by triggering a free of non-allocated memory.
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http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=blobdiff%3Bh=bbbe80cdaf72a75a463aff9551e60b31e2f69061%3Bhp=f841bde30c18493a94fd5d522b84724a8eb82a4a%3Bhb=4ea6a8046bb49d43c950898f0cb4e1994ef6c89d%3Bf=net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c cve-icon cve-icon
http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4ea6a8046bb49d43c950898f0cb4e1994ef6c89d cve-icon cve-icon
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http://secunia.com/advisories/18562 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/18684 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/18977 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/19369 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/19374 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1017 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1018 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:018 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:072 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0140.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0190.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0191.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/9806 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419522/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427981/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/428028/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/428058/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15729 cve-icon cve-icon
http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:044 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-3806 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9903 cve-icon cve-icon
https://usn.ubuntu.com/231-1/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-3806 cve-icon
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-11-25T21:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T23:24:36.194Z

Reserved: 2005-11-25T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2005-3806

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2005-11-25T21:03:00.000

Modified: 2024-11-21T00:02:43.503

Link: CVE-2005-3806

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2005-10-25T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2005-3806 - Bugzilla