CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-6535

Published: Jan 30, 2007 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
9.4 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
UNTRIAGED

The dev_queue_xmit function in Linux kernel 2.6 can fail before calling the local_bh_disable function, which could lead to data corruption and node lockups. NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue is exploitable.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.0 (including) 2.6.0 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 RedHat kernel-0:2.6.9-42.0.8.EL *

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