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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-1055
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2006-1055

Description:
The fill_write_buffer function in sysfs/file.c in Linux kernel 2.6.12 up to versions before 2.6.17-rc1 does not zero terminate a buffer when a length of PAGE_SIZE or more is requested, which might allow local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by causing an out-of-bounds read.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/25693

UBUNTU
  http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-302-1
  http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-281-1

TRUSTIX
  http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0020

SUSE
  http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006-05-31.html

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA19495
  Secunia Advisory: SA19955
  Secunia Advisory: SA20716
  Secunia Advisory: SA20398
  Secunia Advisory: SA19735

OSVDB
  24443

FEDORA
  http://lwn.net/Alerts/180820/

CONFIRM
  http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=6e0dd741a89be35defa05bd79f4211c5a2762825;hp=597a7679dd83691be2f3a53e1f3f915b4a7f6eba
  http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6e0dd741a89be35defa05bd79f4211c5a2762825

BID
  17402


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