CVE-2006-5619

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2006-10-31
Bugzilla:
1618220: CVE-2006-5619 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2006-5619 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

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

Red Hat Security Errata

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

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