CVE-2006-5753

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2007-01-03
CWE:
CWE-681->CWE-119
Bugzilla:
306891: CVE-2006-5753 kernel listxattr syscall can corrupt user space programs

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Unspecified vulnerability in the listxattr system call in Linux kernel, when a "bad inode" is present, allows local users to cause a denial of service (data corruption) and possibly gain privileges via unknown vectors.

Find out more about CVE-2006-5753 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 is not vulnerable to this issue as it only affects x86_64 architectures.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch at release.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 7.2
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete

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Red Hat Security Errata

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

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