Linux Kernel "ip_summed" Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Monday, January 15 2007 @ 01:48 PM EST

Contributed by: sde

A vulnerability has been reported in the Linux Kernel, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to a memory corruption in drivers/net/tokenring/ibmtr.c, which can be exploited to cause a DoS by sending specially crafted packet to a vulnerable system.

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