National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-5701
Original release date:11/03/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Double free vulnerability in squashfs module in the Linux kernel 2.6.x, as used in Fedora Core 5 and possibly other distributions, allows local users to cause a denial of service by mounting a crafted squashfs filesystem.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
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 (03/14/2007)
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Not Vulnerable. The squashfs module is not distributed as part of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
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External Source: XF
Name: linux-squashfs-doublefree-dos(29967)
External Source: BID
Name: 20870
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 22655
Type: Advisory
External Source: MISC
Name: http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-02-11-2006.html
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-395-1
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2007:047
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 24259
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23384
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23361
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2007:047
