CVE-2008-2136

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

Publication date:

16/05/2008

Last modified:

09/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

7.80

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	2.4.0 (including)	2.4.36.5 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	2.6.0 (including)	2.6.25.3 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:4.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06::::lts:::
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.04:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04::::lts:::

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CVE-2008-2136

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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