CVE-2008-2136 in Kernel

Summary

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.

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Reservation

05/12/2008

Disclosure

05/16/2008

Status

Confirmed

Entries

VulDB provides additional information and datapoints for this CVE:

ID	Vulnerability	CWE	Exp	Cou	CVE
3707	Linux Kernel ipip6_rcv resource management	399	Proof-of-Concept	Official fix	CVE-2008-2136
3706	Linux Kernel sys_utimensat resource management	399	Proof-of-Concept	Official fix	CVE-2008-2136

Sources

• MITRE
• NVD
• CVE Details