CVE-2005-0210: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Netfilter in the Linux kernel 2.6.8.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via certain packet fragments that are reassembled twice, which causes a data structure to be allocated twice.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: version 2.6.8.1 only

Published 2005-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.