CVE-2006-2936

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2006-06-26
Bugzilla:
1618128: CVE-2006-2936 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The ftdi_sio driver (usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c) in Linux kernel 2.6.x up to 2.6.17, and possibly later versions, allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by writing more data to the serial port than the hardware can handle, which causes the data to be queued.

Find out more about CVE-2006-2936 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (kernel) RHSA-2006:0617 2006-08-22

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