CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-2456

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2005-08-04 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-08-04
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-667

Description

Array index overflow in the xfrm_sk_policy_insert function in xfrm_user.c in Linux kernel 2.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (oops or deadlock) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a p->dir value that is larger than XFRM_POLICY_OUT, which is used as an index in the sock->sk_policy array.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel 2.6.0 • debian debian linux 3.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-667 Improper Locking weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (3)

  • CWE-129 Improper Validation of Array Index weakness
  • CWE-667 Improper Locking weakness
  • CWE-833 Deadlock weakness

References