National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-3848
Original release date:11/27/2005
Last revised:08/21/2010
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Memory leak in the icmp_push_reply function in Linux 2.6 before 2.6.12.6 and 2.6.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of crafted packets that cause the ip_append_data function to fail, aka "DST leak in icmp_push_reply."
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: MLIST
Name: [linux-kernel] 20050826 [PATCH 4/7] [IPV4]: Fix DST leak in icmp_push_reply()
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MLIST
Name: [linux-kernel] 20050817 [PATCH] fix dst_entry leak in icmp_push_reply()
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=cb94c62c252796f42bb83fe40960d12f3ea5a82a
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11346
External Source: MLIST
Name: [linux-kernel] 20050818 Re: [PATCH] fix dst_entry leak in icmp_push_reply()
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-231-1
External Source: BID
Name: 16044
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2006:0140
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2006:0101
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2006:072
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/chrisw/stable-queue.git;a=blob;h=1cf41a8a8db3080c9a9243e77c5c447c8e694f87;hb=9c5fcb99af7c157be45e9d53aeb857ded5211fcd;f=2.6.12.6/fix-dst-leak-in-icmp_push_reply.patch
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1018
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1017
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 19374
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 19369
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 19038
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18562
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18510
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 18203
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2006:012
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11346
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
