CVE-2005-3848

Memory leak in the icmp_push_reply function in Linux 2.6 before 2.6.12.6 and 2.6.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of crafted packets that cause the ip_append_data function to fail, aka "DST leak in icmp_push_reply."

Date published : 2005-11-26

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16044

http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/chrisw/stable-queue.git;a=blob;h=1cf41a8a8db3080c9a9243e77c5c447c8e694f87;hb=9c5fcb99af7c157be45e9d53aeb857ded5211fcd;f=2.6.12.6/fix-dst-leak-in-icmp_push_reply.patch