PT-2005-5300 · Linux · Linux Kernel

Published 2005-12-31 · Updated 2011-03-08 · CVE-2005-4635

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.15

Description The issue is related to the nl fib input function in fib frontend.c, which does not validate the lengths of the header and payload. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by sending malformed fib lookup netlink messages, resulting in an invalid memory reference.

Recommendations For Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.15, update to version 2.6.15 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-4635

Affected Products

Linux Kernel

References · 8

• http://secunia.com/advisories/18216 · Vendor Advisory
• http://novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_06_kernel.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/16139 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-4635 · Security Note
• http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ea86575eaf99a9262a969309d934318028dbfacb · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0035 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18788 · Note
• http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.15 · Note