Candidate: CVE-2005-3848 References: CONFIRM:http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=cb94c62c252796f42bb83fe40960d12f3ea5a82a MISC:http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/8/26/173 Description: Ollie Wild discovered a leak in the icmp_push_reply() function in Linux 2.6, in which an ignored error returned by ip_append_data() would result in the route and net_device not being freed. A malicious remote user could exploit this in order to initiate a denial of service attack. This issue was fixed in Linux 2.6.12.6 and 2.6.13. Notes: This code looks completely different in 2.4; neither ip_append_data() (the function that returns an error) nor icmp_push_reply() (the function that fails to check this error) exist. So, I'm marking 2.4 as unaffected. Actual CVE description: Memory leak in the icmp_push_reply function in Linux 2.6 before 2.6.12.6 and 2.6.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of crafted packets that cause the ip_append_data function to fail, aka "DST leak in icmp_push_reply." upstream: released (2.6.12.6, 2.6.13) 2.6.8-sarge-security: released (2.6.8-16sarge2) [fix-dst-leak-in-icmp_push_reply.dpatch] 2.4.27-sid/sarge: released (2.4.27-12) [188_fix-dst-leak-in-icmp_push_reply.diff] 2.4.27-sarge-security: released (2.4.27-10sarge2) [188_fix-dst-leak-in-icmp_push_reply.diff] linux-2.6: 2.4.19-woody-security: N/A 2.4.18-woody-security: N/A 2.4.17-woody-security: N/A 2.4.16-woody-security: N/A 2.4.17-woody-security-hppa: N/A 2.4.17-woody-security-ia64: N/A 2.4.18-woody-security-hppa: