Bug 1618220 (CVE-2006-5619) - CVE-2006-5619 security flaw
Summary: CVE-2006-5619 security flaw
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2006-5619
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2018-08-16 12:42 UTC by Stephen Herr
Modified: 2021-02-16 23:14 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-08-16 12:42:11 UTC
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Description Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 12:42:05 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 16:50:49 UTC 
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.
Comment 2 Stephen Herr 2019-06-13 19:30:54 UTC 
Statement:

Red Hat is aware of this issue and are tracking it via bug 213214 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213214

This issue does not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 or 3
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