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Flaw bug created to hold information about an old flaw we knew something about. For more details see the MITRE CVE description.
MITRE description: Multiple buffer overflows in the cmtp_recv_interopmsg function in the Bluetooth driver (net/bluetooth/cmtp/capi.c) in the Linux kernel 2.4.22 up to 2.4.33.4 and 2.6.2 before 2.6.18.6, and 2.6.19.x, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via CAPI messages with a large value for the length of the (1) manu (manufacturer) or (2) serial (serial number) field.
Statement: Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218602 This issue does not affect the version of the Linux kernel shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 or 3. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.