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CVE-2008-2136

Memory leak in the ipip6_rcv function in net/ipv6/sit.c in the Linux kernel 2.4 before 2.4.36.5 and 2.6 before 2.6.25.3 allows remote…

High7.8EPSS 4.9%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
mitre

Description

Memory leak in the ipip6_rcv function in net/ipv6/sit.c in the Linux kernel 2.4 before 2.4.36.5 and 2.6 before 2.6.25.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via network traffic to a Simple Internet Transition (SIT) tunnel interface, related to the pskb_may_pull and kfree_skb functions, and management of an skb reference count.

Timeline

  1. ID reserved

    By mitre

  2. · 4 days later

    Published

  3. · 16 years later

    Record updated

Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2008-2136, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Modified2.0High7.8AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
4.9% · top 7.8% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.

Weakness

Affected products

  • n/a

    • affected n/a

References (39)

Sources

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