National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-5619
Original release date:10/31/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (11/07/2006)
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Red Hat is aware of this issue and are tracking it via bug 213214 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213214
This issue does not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 or 3
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=bcd620757d3a4ae78ef0ca41adb5d9e400ed92b6
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-760
External Source: XF
Name: kernel-seqfile-ipv6-dos(29970)
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1233
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-395-1
External Source: BID
Name: 20847
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20061109 rPSA-2006-0204-1 kernel
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2006:079
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2007:025
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2007:012
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2007:002
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-4297
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-063.htm
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 24206
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23997
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23752
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23593
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23474
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23384
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23370
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 22754
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 22665
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2007:0014
External Source: MLIST
Name: [linux-kernel] 20061105 Linux 2.6.16.31-rc1
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-760
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2007:025
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2007:012
