CVE-2006-4813

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2006-10-11
Bugzilla:
1618206: CVE-2006-4813 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The __block_prepare_write function in fs/buffer.c for Linux kernel 2.6.x before 2.6.13 does not properly clear buffers during certain error conditions, which allows local users to read portions of files that have been unlinked.

Find out more about CVE-2006-4813 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (kernel) RHSA-2007:0014 2007-01-30

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Dmitriy Monakhov for reporting this issue.

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