CVE-2006-5158

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2006-09-28
Bugzilla:
243251: CVE-2006-5158 NFS lockd deadlock

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The nlmclnt_mark_reclaim in clntlock.c in NFS lockd in Linux kernel before 2.6.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process crash) and deny access to NFS exports via unspecified vectors that trigger a kernel oops (null dereference) and a deadlock.

Find out more about CVE-2006-5158 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=210128

This issue does not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 or 3.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (kernel) RHSA-2007:0488 2007-06-25

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