Bug 1618066 (CVE-2006-1856) - CVE-2006-1856 security flaw
Summary: CVE-2006-1856 security flaw
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2006-1856
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2018-08-16 12:15 UTC by Stephen Herr
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:55 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-08-16 12:15:50 UTC
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Description Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 12:15:44 UTC 
Flaw bug created to hold information about an old flaw we knew something about. For more details see the MITRE CVE description.
Comment 1 Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 16:40:31 UTC 
MITRE description:

Certain modifications to the Linux kernel 2.6.16 and earlier do not add the appropriate Linux Security Modules (LSM) file_permission hooks to the (1) readv and (2) writev functions, which might allow attackers to bypass intended access restrictions.
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