CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-0037
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-01-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Description
ip_nat_pptp in the PPTP NAT helper (netfilter/ip_nat_helper_pptp.c) in Linux kernel 2.6.14, and other versions, allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) via a crafted outbound packet that causes an incorrect offset to be calculated from pointer arithmetic when non-linear SKBs (socket buffers) are used.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel 2.6.14
References
- http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=03b9feca89366952ae5dfe4ad8107b1ece50b710 kernel.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18482 secunia.com
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/388 securityreason.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16414 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0004 www.trustix.org
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0220 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24204 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=03b9feca89366952ae5dfe4ad8107b1ece50b710 kernel.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18482 secunia.com
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/388 securityreason.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16414 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0004 www.trustix.org
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0220 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24204 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com