Security Advisory

CVE-2005-2555

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2005-08-16 04:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 22:30:01
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

Linux kernel 2.6.x does not properly restrict socket policy access to users with the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability, which could allow local users to conduct unauthorized activities via (1) ipv4/ip_sockglue.c and (2) ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c.