CVE-2005-3858 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2005-3858?

CVE-2005-3858 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 27 Nov 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Memory leak in the ip6_input_finish function in ip6_input.c in Linux kernel 2.6.12 and earlier might allow attackers to cause a denial of service via malformed IPv6 packets with unspecified parameter problems, which prevents the SKB from being freed.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-3858?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2005-3858?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2005-3858 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-3858 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-vwjc-xxv9-rhjg.