A certain Debian patch to the IPv6 implementation in the Linux kernel 3.2.x through 3.2.63 does not properly validate arguments in ipv6_select_ident function calls, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) by leveraging (1) tun or (2) macvtap device access. <a href"http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html">CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference</a>
Publication date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 17:55:00 +0000