CVE-2008-2136

Impact

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.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.25.3
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-06/msg00006.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00002.html
• http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=121031533024912&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30198
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30241
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30276
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30368
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30499
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30818
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30962
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31107
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31198
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31341
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31628
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31689
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33201
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33280
• http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-362.htm
• http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0169
• http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1588
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ChangeLog-2.4.36.5
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.25.3
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:167
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:174