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ID CVE-2006-4623
Summary The Unidirectional Lightweight Encapsulation (ULE) decapsulation component in dvb-core/dvb_net.c in the dvb driver in the Linux kernel 2.6.17.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an SNDU length of 0 in a ULE packet. There is a patch available for the affected product release.
References
Vulnerable Configurations
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.17.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.17.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVSS
Base: 7.8 (as of 17-10-2018 - 21:38)
Impact:
Exploitability:
CWE NVD-CWE-Other
CAPEC
Access
VectorComplexityAuthentication
NETWORK LOW NONE
Impact
ConfidentialityIntegrityAvailability
NONE NONE COMPLETE
cvss-vector via4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
oval via4
accepted 2013-04-29T04:22:03.848-04:00
class vulnerability
contributors
  • name Aharon Chernin
    organization SCAP.com, LLC
  • name Dragos Prisaca
    organization G2, Inc.
definition_extensions
  • comment The operating system installed on the system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
    oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11831
  • comment CentOS Linux 4.x
    oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16636
  • comment Oracle Linux 4.x
    oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15990
description The Unidirectional Lightweight Encapsulation (ULE) decapsulation component in dvb-core/dvb_net.c in the dvb driver in the Linux kernel 2.6.17.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an SNDU length of 0 in a ULE packet.
family unix
id oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9775
status accepted
submitted 2010-07-09T03:56:16-04:00
title The Unidirectional Lightweight Encapsulation (ULE) decapsulation component in dvb-core/dvb_net.c in the dvb driver in the Linux kernel 2.6.17.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an SNDU length of 0 in a ULE packet.
version 29
redhat via4
advisories
rhsa
id RHSA-2006:0689
rpms
  • kernel-0:2.6.9-42.0.3.EL
  • kernel-debuginfo-0:2.6.9-42.0.3.EL
  • kernel-devel-0:2.6.9-42.0.3.EL
  • kernel-doc-0:2.6.9-42.0.3.EL
  • kernel-hugemem-0:2.6.9-42.0.3.EL
  • kernel-hugemem-devel-0:2.6.9-42.0.3.EL
  • kernel-largesmp-0:2.6.9-42.0.3.EL
  • kernel-largesmp-devel-0:2.6.9-42.0.3.EL
  • kernel-smp-0:2.6.9-42.0.3.EL
  • kernel-smp-devel-0:2.6.9-42.0.3.EL
refmap via4
bid 19939
bugtraq
  • 20061017 rPSA-2006-0194-1 kernel
  • 20070615 rPSA-2007-0124-1 kernel xen
confirm
debian DSA-1304
mandriva MDKSA-2006:182
mlist [lkml-patch] 20060821 dvb-core: Proper handling ULE SNDU length of 0
secunia
  • 21820
  • 22292
  • 22382
  • 22441
  • 22945
  • 23474
  • 25691
  • 25714
  • 26139
suse SUSE-SA:2006:079
ubuntu USN-489-1
vupen ADV-2006-3551
statements via4
contributor Joshua Bressers
lastmodified 2006-09-21
organization Red Hat
statement Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204912 This issue does not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 or 3.
Last major update 17-10-2018 - 21:38
Published 11-09-2006 - 17:04
Last modified 17-10-2018 - 21:38
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