Bugzilla – Bug 136018
VUL-0: local dos in ip_conntrack_proto_tcp
Last modified: 2009-10-13 20:40:24 UTC
is public. CVE-2005-3809 "The nfattr_to_tcp function in ip_conntrack_proto_tcp.c in ctnetlink in Linux kernel 2.6.14 up to 2.6.14.3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel oops) via an update message without private protocol information, which triggers a null dereference." http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113269476105016&w=2 http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/chrisw/linux-2.6.14.y.git;a=commit;h=36f73ff25328f8a99c8a30f8a89b27b87440e0d1 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.14.3 can this done by a user? or just by root?
... 2.6.14 up to 2.6.14.3 ... We don't ship any products based on this kernel. In particular, 10.0 is based on 2.6.13 which is not vulnerable according to the description
CVE-2005-3809: CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.8 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)