CVE-2006-5619
Description
From CVE.org
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.
Statement
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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