CVE-2006-5619 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2006-5619
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Description: The seqfile handling (ip6fl_get_n function in ip6_flowlabel.c) in Linux kernel 2.6 up to 2.6.18-stable allows local users to cause a denial of service (hang or oops) via unspecified manipulations that trigger an infinite loop while searching for flowlabels.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/29970 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: SA23593 Secunia Advisory: SA23384 Secunia Advisory: SA22754 Secunia Advisory: SA23370 Secunia Advisory: SA22665 Secunia Advisory: SA23997 Secunia Advisory: SA24206 Secunia Advisory: SA23474 REDHAT http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0014.html MLIST http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/5/46 MANDRIVA http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:012 http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:025 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:002 DEBIAN http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1233 CONFIRM http://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-760 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=bcd620757d3a4ae78ef0ca41adb5d9e400ed92b6 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/451097/100/0/threaded BID 20847

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