CVE-2006-2446

2006-08-1500:00:00

ubuntu.com

5.4 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

0.018 Low

EPSS

Percentile

88.1%

JSON

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.