Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel 2.6.8 via VLAN Code

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel 2.6.8 via VLAN Code

CVE-2005-2548 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

vlan_dev.c in the VLAN code for Linux kernel 2.6.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel oops from null dereference) via certain UDP packets that lead to a function call with the wrong argument, as demonstrated using snmpwalk on snmpd.

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