CVEvulnerability
CVE-2004-0592
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2004-12-31
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Description
The tcp_find_option function of the netfilter subsystem for IPv6 in the SUSE Linux 2.6.5 kernel with USAGI patches, when using iptables and TCP options rules, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption by infinite loop) via a large option length that produces a negative integer after a casting operation to the char type, a similar flaw to CVE-2004-0626.
Affected configurations
• suse suse linux 2.6.5
References
- http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-July/023408.html lists.grok.org.uk
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_20_kernel.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43137 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-July/023408.html lists.grok.org.uk
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_20_kernel.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43137 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com