CVE-2006-6535 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2006-6535 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	9.4
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 228201 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2007:035, published Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 05:20:02 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:18:52 2023