CVE-2006-1342

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2006-03-04
Bugzilla:
1618032: CVE-2006-1342 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

net/ipv4/af_inet.c in Linux kernel 2.4 does not clear sockaddr_in.sin_zero before returning IPv4 socket names from the (1) getsockname, (2) getpeername, and (3) accept functions, which allows local users to obtain portions of potentially sensitive memory.

Find out more about CVE-2006-1342 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 RHSA-2006:0580 2006-07-13
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 RHSA-2006:0579 2006-07-13

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