VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2005-3806

CVSS score6.6 NONE
EPSS probability0.44%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2005-11-25
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

Description

The IPv6 flow label handling code (ip6_flowlabel.c) in Linux kernels 2.4 up to 2.4.32 and 2.6 before 2.6.14 modifies the wrong variable in certain circumstances, which allows local users to corrupt kernel memory or cause a denial of service (crash) by triggering a free of non-allocated memory.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-399

Primary references