CVE-2005-3858 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2005-3858 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.8
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 143531 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2006:012, published Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 02:28:54 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:14:43 2025