CVE-2006-0037

CVE-2006-0037 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

ip_nat_pptp in the PPTP NAT helper (netfilter/ip_nat_helper_pptp.c) in Linux kernel 2.6.14, and other versions, allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or crash) via a crafted outbound packet that causes an incorrect offset to be calculated from pointer arithmetic when non-linear SKBs (socket buffers) are used.

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