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CVE-2008-2136

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2008-05-16 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Memory leak in the ipip6_rcv function in net/ipv6/sit.c in the Linux kernel 2.4 before 2.4.36.5 and 2.6 before 2.6.25.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via network traffic to a Simple Internet Transition (SIT) tunnel interface, related to the pskb_may_pull and kfree_skb functions, and management of an skb reference count.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux KernelCanonical Ubuntu LinuxDebian Debian Linux

Weakness Type

CWE-399

References