CVE-2006-4623 (GCVE-0-2006-4623)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-09-11 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 19:14
VLAI
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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Date Public
2006-09-11 00:00
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