CVE-2006-4623

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Summary

CVECVE-2006-4623
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-09-11 17:04:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-17 21:38:00 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.17.8 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 2.6.17.8 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Mandriva update for kernel - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
ASA-2006-249 (RHSA-2006-0689) CONFIRM support.avaya.com
Avaya Products Linux Kernel Multiple Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Red Hat update for kernel - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
LKML: "Ang Way Chuang": [Patch] dvb-core: Proper handling ULE SNDU length of 0 MLIST lkml.org Patch
Security Announcement SUSE www.novell.com
Debian update for kernel-source-2.6.8 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
rPath update for kernel - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
SUSE update for kernel - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Linux Kernel ULE Packet Handling Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Patch
rPath update for kernel and xen - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Advisories - Mandriva Linux MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support REDHAT www.redhat.com
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
USN-489-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
Ubuntu update for kernel and redhat-cluster-suite - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
Linux Kernel ULE Packet Handling Denial of Service - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
[#RPL-721] Remote DoS in kernels before 2.6.17.14 CVE-2006-4623 - rPath JIRA CONFIRM issues.rpath.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1304-1 kernel-source-2.6.8 DEBIAN www.debian.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2006-09-21Joshua BressersRed 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.

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