A vulnerability has been identified in Linux Kernel, which could be exploited by malicious users to gain knowledge of sensitive information or cause a denial of service. This issue is due to a NULL pointer dereference error in the "ipv6_getsockopt_sticky()" [net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c] function, which could be exploited by attackers to panic a vulnerable system or disclose arbitrary memory contents.
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2007-03-12 : Initial release
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