CVE-2005-3806

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.

Date published : 2005-11-25

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15729

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