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CVE-2005-3806

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.6 Published: 2005-11-25 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The IPv6 flow label handling code (ip6_flowlabel.c) in Linux kernels 2.4 up to 2.4.32 and 2.6 before 2.6.14 modifies the wrong variable in certain circumstances, which allows local users to corrupt kernel memory or cause a denial of service (crash) by triggering a free of non-allocated memory.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-399

References