CVE-2006-0454 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2006-0454?

CVE-2006-0454 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 7 Feb 2006. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Linux kernel before 2.6.15.3 down to 2.6.12, while constructing an ICMP response in icmp_send, does not properly handle when the ip_options_echo function in icmp.c fails, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors such as (1) record-route and (2) timestamp IP options with the needaddr bit set and a truncated value.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-0454?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2006-0454?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-0454 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

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-2006-0454 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-0454 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-5hhm-p23m-6hh8.