CVE-2010-0006 Information

Description

The ipv6_hop_jumbo function in net/ipv6/exthdrs.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32.4 when network namespaces are enabled allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via an invalid IPv6 jumbogram a related issue to CVE-2007-4567.

Reference

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300951 http://cert.fi/en/reports/2010/vulnerability341748.html http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2570a4f5428bcdb1077622342181755741e7fa60 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/034250.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00002.html http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=126343325807340&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/38168 http://secunia.com/advisories/38333 http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-0006 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.32.4 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/01/14/2 http://www.osvdb.org/61876 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37810 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555217