CVE-2005-3806 Information

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.

Reference

http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blobdiff;h=bbbe80cdaf72a75a463aff9551e60b31e2f69061;hp=f841bde30c18493a94fd5d522b84724a8eb82a4a;hb=4ea6a8046bb49d43c950898f0cb4e1994ef6c89d;f=net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4ea6a8046bb49d43c950898f0cb4e1994ef6c89d http://secunia.com/advisories/17917 http://secunia.com/advisories/17918 http://secunia.com/advisories/18203 http://secunia.com/advisories/18510 http://secunia.com/advisories/18562 http://secunia.com/advisories/18684 http://secunia.com/advisories/18977 http://secunia.com/advisories/19369 http://secunia.com/advisories/19374 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1017 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1018 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:018 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:072 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0140.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0190.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0191.html http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/9806 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419522/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427981/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/428028/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/428058/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15729 http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:044 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9903 https://usn.ubuntu.com/231-1/