CVE-2006-4813 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2006-4813
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Description: The __block_prepare_write function in fs/buffer.c for Linux kernel 2.6.x before 2.6.13 does not properly clear buffers during certain error conditions, which allows local users to read portions of files that have been unlinked.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-395-1 SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_79_kernel.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA23752 Secunia Advisory: SA23370 Secunia Advisory: SA23384 Secunia Advisory: SA23997 Secunia Advisory: SA24206 Secunia Advisory: SA23474 REDHAT http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0014.html OSVDB 31376 MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:012 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:025 DEBIAN http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1233 CONFIRM http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-063.htm http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=152becd26e0563aefdbc4fd1fe491928efe92d1f BID 21522

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