CVE-2005-3806

Upstream information

CVE-2005-3806 at MITRE

Description

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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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	6.6
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 100428 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 102323 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 104085 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 114364 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 117169 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 130270 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 132739 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 133577 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 133972 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• SUSE-SA:2005:067, published Tue, 06 Dec 2005 13:00:00 +0000
• SUSE-SA:2005:068, published Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:00:00 +0000

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 02:26:52 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:14:32 2023