CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-2446

5.4 MEDIUM Published 2006-08-15 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-08-15
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.4 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

Race condition between the kfree_skb and __skb_unlink functions in the socket buffer handling in Linux kernel 2.6.9, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), as demonstrated using the TCP stress tests from the LTP test suite.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel 2.6.9

References