Array Out-of-Bounds Vulnerability in rose_rt_ioctl Function

CVE-2005-3273 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The rose_rt_ioctl function in rose_route.c for Radionet Open Source Environment (ROSE) in Linux 2.6 kernels before 2.6.12, and 2.4 before 2.4.29, does not properly verify the ndigis argument for a new route, which allows attackers to trigger array out-of-bounds errors with a large number of digipeats.

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