Bug 1618249 (CVE-2006-6535) - CVE-2006-6535 security flaw
Summary: CVE-2006-6535 security flaw
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2006-6535
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 12:47 UTC by Stephen Herr
Modified: 2021-06-01 13:50 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-08-16 12:47:10 UTC
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Description Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 12:47:02 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 16:52:45 UTC 
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.
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