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CVE-2005-4635

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The nl_fib_input function in fib_frontend.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.15 does not check for valid lengths of the header and payload, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memory reference) via malformed fib_lookup netlink messages.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: 2.0, 2.0.9.9, 2.1, 2.2.0, 2.2.15-pre16, 2.2.15_pre20 (+152)

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/18216
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18788
• http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ea86575eaf99a9262a969309d934318028dbfacb
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.15
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_06_kernel.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16139
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0035
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18216
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18788
• http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ea86575eaf99a9262a969309d934318028dbfacb
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.15
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_06_kernel.html

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