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SUSE-SA:2005:067: kernel various security and bugfixes

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SUSE-SA:2005:067: kernel various security and bugfixes

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C)
Published
12/06/2005
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/13/2005
Modified
11/18/2015

Description

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.

Solution(s)

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