CVE-2005-2548

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

vlan_dev.c in the VLAN code for Linux kernel 2.6.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel oops from null dereference) via certain UDP packets that lead to a function call with the wrong argument, as demonstrated using snmpwalk on snmpd.

vlan_dev.c in the VLAN code for Linux kernel 2.6.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel oops from null dereference) via certain UDP packets that lead to a function call with the wrong argument, as demonstrated using snmpwalk on snmpd.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 19 years ago

2005-08-12 04:00:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-03 21:30:00

Affected Software

Linux Kernel 2.6.8

2.6.8

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=309308

Exploit, Vendor Advisory

http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/bridge/2004-September/000638.html

17826

Vendor Advisory

18056

Vendor Advisory

DSA-922

MDKSA-2005:219

14611

USN-169-1

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