CVE-2006-6535

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2006-12-14
Bugzilla:
1618249: CVE-2006-6535 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The dev_queue_xmit function in Linux kernel 2.6 can fail before calling the local_bh_disable function, which could lead to data corruption and "node lockups." NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue is exploitable.

Find out more about CVE-2006-6535 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 Kostantin Khorenko for reporting this issue.

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