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Tracker / CVE-2004-0626

CVE-2004-0626

Medium 5.0

The tcp_find_option function of the netfilter subsystem in Linux kernel 2.6, when using iptables and TCP options rules, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption by infinite loop) via a large option length that produces a negative integer after a casting operation to the char type.

Affected products and versions

conectiva linux
gentoo linux
linux linux_kernel
suse suse_linux

Analysis

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