Vulnerability in Linux Kernel
CVE-2008-2136
Memory leak in the ipip6_rcv function in net/ipv6/sit.c in the Linux kernel 2.4 before 2.4.36.5 and 2.6 before 2.6.25.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via network traffic to a Simple Internet Transition (SIT) tunnel interface, related to the pskb_may_pull and kfree_skb functions, and management of an skb reference count.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.049 (91.9th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 92nd percentile — 91.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.049 · newest: 0.049 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Linux Kernel
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 6.06, 7.04, 7.10
- Debian Linux — versions 4.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securitytracker.com/id (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/30276 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/30962 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.25.3 (Vendor Advisory)
- wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0169 (Broken Link)
- secunia.com/advisories/31198 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/30368 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/31341 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ChangeLog-2.4.36.5 (Vendor Advisory)