Bug 222647 (CVE-2008-2136)

Summary:	Kernel: ipip6_rcv() memory leak (CVE-2008-2136)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) <rbu>
Component:	Kernel	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	kernel
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git;a=commit;h=873496a3485950402ee0436c9d17eeb789157b10
Whiteboard:	[linux <2.4.36.5][linux >=2.6 <2.6.16.61] [linux >=2.6.17 <2.6.25.3]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-05-18 13:52:42 UTC

CVE-2008-2136 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-2136):
  Memory leak in the ipip6_rcv function in net/ipv6/sit.c in the Linux kernel
  before 2.6.25.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory
  consumption) via network traffic to a Simple Internet Transition (SIT) tunnel
  interface, related to the pskb_may_pull and kfree_skb functions, and
  management of an skb reference count.