Bug 106157 (CVE-2005-2548)

Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2005-2548: kernel: SNMP can crash the 2.6 kernel
Product: [Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents Reporter: Thomas Biege <thomas>
Component: IncidentsAssignee: Hubert Mantel <mantel>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: patch-request, security-team
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
Whiteboard: CVE-2005-2548: CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Found By: Other Services Priority:
Business Priority: Blocker: ---
Marketing QA Status: --- IT Deployment: ---

Description Thomas Biege 2005-08-22 13:45:07 UTC
Hi,
a bug in the 2.6 kernel can be used to trigger a denial-of-service attack.

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14611/info
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2548
Comment 2 Marcus Meissner 2005-08-22 13:59:08 UTC
this is the patch fixing the problem: 
 
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset%4041422e07NI24ztnqYDv8Uxc_7tbeBg 
 
i verified the 9.2 kernel-source tree and we already have it (late enough 
2.6.9rc was used. ;) 
Comment 3 Olaf Kirch 2005-08-22 14:05:51 UTC
In addition to that, this isn't really a security bug. It's so obscure. 
Comment 4 Thomas Biege 2009-10-13 20:49:57 UTC
CVE-2005-2548: CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)