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Tracker / CVE-2008-2136

CVE-2008-2136

High 7.8

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.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel · 2.4.0 → 2.4.36.5
linux linux_kernel · 2.6.0 → 2.6.25.3

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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