kernel

2006-10-21

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Author: voroskoi
Vulnerable: 2.6.17-5
Unaffected: 2.6.17-6siwenna1

Ang Way Chuang has reported a vulnerability in Linux Kernel, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the ULE (Unidirectional Lightweight Encapsulation) decapsulation code when processing ULE packets. This can be exploited to crash the system by sending a malicious ULE packet with an SNDU (Sub Network Data Unit) size of 0

Bug Tracker URL: http://bugs.frugalware.org/task/1323

CVEs:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4623