VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2005-2548

CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability3.00%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2005-08-12
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

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.

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