CVE-2006-1368 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2006-1368?

CVE-2006-1368 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 23 Mar 2006. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Buffer overflow in the USB Gadget RNDIS implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (kmalloc'd memory corruption) via a remote NDIS response to OID_GEN_SUPPORTED_LIST, which causes memory to be allocated for the reply data but not the reply structure.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-1368?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2006-1368?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2006-1368 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-1368 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-35p9-hh46-pwm3.