CVE-2008-3686

Severity

49%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

115%

The rt6_fill_node function in net/ipv6/route.c in Linux kernel 2.6.26-rc4, 2.6.26.2, and possibly other 2.6.26 versions, allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel OOPS) via IPv6 requests when no IPv6 input device is in use, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

The rt6_fill_node function in net/ipv6/route.c in Linux kernel 2.6.26-rc4, 2.6.26.2, and possibly other 2.6.26 versions, allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel OOPS) via IPv6 requests when no IPv6 input device is in use, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

Type

Linux Kernel

First reported 16 years ago

2008-08-14 22:41:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-08-08 01:32:00

Affected Software

Linux Kernel 2.6.26 Release Candidate 4

2.6.26

Linux Kernel 2.6.26.2

2.6.26.2

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5e0115e500fe9dd2ca11e6f92db9123204f1327a

[linux-kernel] 20080807 OOPS, ip -f inet6 route get fec0::1, linux-2.6.26, ip6_route_output, rt6_fill_node+0x175

Exploit

[linux-kernel] 20080808 Re: OOPS, ip -f inet6 route get fec0::1, linux-2.6.26, ip6_route_output, rt6_fill_node+0x175

Exploit

31579

Vendor Advisory

ADV-2008-2422

Vendor Advisory

linux-kernel-rt6fillnode-dos(44605)

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