CVE-2006-1368

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-03-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the USB Gadget RNDIS implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (kmalloc'd memory corruption) via a remote NDIS response to OID_GEN_SUPPORTED_LIST, which causes memory to be allocated for the reply data but not the reply structure.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 2.6.15

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/19330
http://secunia.com/advisories/19955
http://secunia.com/advisories/20671
http://secunia.com/advisories/20914
http://secunia.com/advisories/21045
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1097
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1103
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8763716bfe4d8a16bef28c9947cf9d799b1796a5
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.16
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:123
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17831
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1046

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