CVE-2005-2548

Severity Score

7.5

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

vlan_dev.c in the VLAN code for Linux kernel 2.6.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel oops from null dereference) via certain UDP packets that lead to a function call with the wrong argument, as demonstrated using snmpwalk on snmpd.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2005-08-12 CVE Reserved
2005-08-12 CVE Published
2024-08-07 CVE Updated
2024-08-07 First Exploit
2025-03-29 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-399: Resource Management Errors

CAPEC

References (8)

URL	Tag	Source
http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/bridge/2004-September/000638.html	X_refsource_confirm
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14611	Vdb Entry

URL	Date	SRC
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=309308	2024-08-07

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
http://secunia.com/advisories/17826	2018-10-03
http://secunia.com/advisories/18056	2018-10-03
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-922	2018-10-03
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:219	2018-10-03
https://usn.ubuntu.com/169-1	2018-10-03

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Linux Search vendor "Linux"		Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel"				2.6.8 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version "2.6.8"		-		Affected