CVE-2006-5619 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2006-5619 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	2.1
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 216590 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2006:079, published Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 05:15:50 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:18:16 2023