Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's IPSec Packet Handling

CVE-2005-3753 · HIGH Severity

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

Linux kernel before after 2.6.12 and before 2.6.13.1 might allow attackers to cause a denial of service (Oops) via certain IPSec packets that cause alignment problems in standard multi-block cipher processors. NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue can be triggered by an attacker.

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