CVE-2005-2548 Information

Description

vlan_dev.c in the VLAN code for Linux kernel 2.6.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel oops from null dereference) via certain UDP packets that lead to a function call with the wrong argument as demonstrated using snmpwalk on snmpd.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=309308 http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/bridge/2004-September/000638.html http://secunia.com/advisories/17826 http://secunia.com/advisories/18056 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-922 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:219 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14611 https://usn.ubuntu.com/169-1/