CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-5754

Published: Jan 30, 2007 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.9 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
UNTRIAGED

The aio_setup_ring function in Linux kernel does not properly initialize a variable, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via an unspecified error path that causes an incorrect free operation.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux * 2.6.11 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 RedHat kernel-0:2.6.9-42.0.8.EL *

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