CVE-2005-2548

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-08-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

vlan_dev.c in the VLAN code for Linux kernel 2.6.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel oops from null dereference) via certain UDP packets that lead to a function call with the wrong argument, as demonstrated using snmpwalk on snmpd.

Affected products

Linux kernel: 2.6.8

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=309308
http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/bridge/2004-September/000638.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/17826
http://secunia.com/advisories/18056
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-922
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:219
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14611
https://usn.ubuntu.com/169-1/
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=309308
http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/bridge/2004-September/000638.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/17826
http://secunia.com/advisories/18056

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