CVE-2006-0036

Severity

78%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

115%

ip_nat_pptp in the PPTP NAT helper (netfilter/ip_nat_helper_pptp.c) in Linux kernel 2.6.14, and other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) via an inbound PPTP_IN_CALL_REQUEST packet that causes a null pointer to be used in an offset calculation.

ip_nat_pptp in the PPTP NAT helper (netfilter/ip_nat_helper_pptp.c) in Linux kernel 2.6.14, and other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) via an inbound PPTP_IN_CALL_REQUEST packet that causes a null pointer to be used in an offset calculation.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

First reported 19 years ago

2006-01-23 22:03:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-20 01:29:00

Affected Software

Linux Kernel 2.6.14

2.6.14

References

http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=15db34702cfafd24acc60295cf14861e497502ab

18482

388

16414

2006-0004

ADV-2006-0220

kernel-pptpincallrequest-dos(24203)

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