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Tracker / CVE-2006-2446

CVE-2006-2446

Medium 5.4

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.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel

Analysis

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