CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-3686
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-08-14
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
The rt6_fill_node function in net/ipv6/route.c in Linux kernel 2.6.26-rc4, 2.6.26.2, and possibly other 2.6.26 versions, allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel OOPS) via IPv6 requests when no IPv6 input device is in use, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel 2.6.26
• linux linux kernel 2.6.26.2
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5e0115e500fe9dd2ca11e6f92db9123204f1327a git.kernel.org
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/7/230 Exploit
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/8/7 Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31579 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2422 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44605 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5e0115e500fe9dd2ca11e6f92db9123204f1327a git.kernel.org
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/7/230 Exploit
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/8/7 Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31579 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2422 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44605 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com