CVE-2005-3858

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-11-27 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Memory leak in the ip6_input_finish function in ip6_input.c in Linux kernel 2.6.12 and earlier might allow attackers to cause a denial of service via malformed IPv6 packets with unspecified parameter problems, which prevents the SKB from being freed.

Affected products

Linux kernel: 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.6.3, 2.6.4, 2.6.5 (+20)

References

http://lists.suse.de/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Feb/0010.html
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=112508479120081&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=112533899509033&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/18203
http://secunia.com/advisories/18510
http://secunia.com/advisories/18562
http://secunia.com/advisories/19038
http://secunia.com/advisories/19369
http://secunia.com/advisories/19374
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1017
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1018
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html

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