CVE-2006-2446

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2006-08-10
Bugzilla:
1618104: CVE-2006-2446 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Race condition between the kfree_skb and __skb_unlink functions in the socket buffer handling in Linux kernel 2.6.9, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), as demonstrated using the TCP stress tests from the LTP test suite.

Find out more about CVE-2006-2446 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (kernel) RHSA-2006:0575 2006-08-10

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