CVE-2008-2136

CVE Details

Release Date:

2008-05-16

Description

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.

See more information about CVE-2008-2136 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	7.8	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None	Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (kernel)	ELSA-2008-0607	2008-07-24
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (ocfs2-2.6.9-67.0.22.0.1.EL)	ELSA-2008-0607	2008-07-24
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (oracleasm-2.6.9-67.0.22.0.1.EL)	ELSA-2008-0607	2008-07-24
Oracle Linux version 5 (kernel)	ELSA-2008-0612	2008-08-05
Oracle Linux version 5 (ocfs2-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2008-0612	2008-08-05
Oracle Linux version 5 (oracleasm-2.6.18-92.1.10.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2008-0612	2008-08-05

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