FKIE_CVE-2006-4997
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2006-10-10 04:06 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:30
Severity
Summary
The clip_mkip function in net/atm/clip.c of the ATM subsystem in Linux kernel allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) via unknown vectors that cause the ATM subsystem to access the memory of socket buffers after they are freed (freed pointer dereference).
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 5.10 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 6.06 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 6.10 | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux | 2.1 | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux | 3 | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux | 4 |
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