CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-0046

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2002-01-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-01-31
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Description

Linux kernel, and possibly other operating systems, allows remote attackers to read portions of memory via a series of fragmented ICMP packets that generate an ICMP TTL Exceeded response, which includes portions of the memory in the response packet.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel 2.6.20.1

References