CVE-2005-4635

Publication date

2006-01-09 11:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The nl_fib_input function in fib_frontend.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.15 does not check for valid lengths of the header and payload, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memory reference) via malformed fib_lookup netlink messages.