CVEvulnerability
CVE-2005-2548
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2005-08-12
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel 2.6.8
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)
- CWE-688 Function Call With Incorrect Variable or Reference as Argument weakness
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=309308 Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/bridge/2004-September/000638.html lists.osdl.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17826 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18056 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-922 www.debian.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:219 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14611 www.securityfocus.com
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/169-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=309308 Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/bridge/2004-September/000638.html lists.osdl.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17826 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18056 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-922 www.debian.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:219 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14611 www.securityfocus.com
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/169-1/ usn.ubuntu.com