CVE-2005-2872

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-09-09 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The ipt_recent kernel module (ipt_recent.c) in Linux kernel before 2.6.12, when running on 64-bit processors such as AMD64, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via certain attacks such as SSH brute force, which leads to memset calls using a length based on the u_int32_t type, acting on an array of unsigned long elements, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-2873.

Affected products

Linux kernel: 2.6.0, 2.6.0-test1, 2.6.0-test10, 2.6.0-test11, 2.6.0-test2, 2.6.0-test3 (+40)

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=322237
http://secunia.com/advisories/17073
http://secunia.com/advisories/17826
http://secunia.com/advisories/17918
http://secunia.com/advisories/18056
http://secunia.com/advisories/18059
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-921
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-922
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/chrisw/lsm-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=bcfff0b471a60df350338bcd727fc9b8a6aa54b2
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:219
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:220
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-514.html

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