CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-2935

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2006-07-05 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-07-05
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-120

Description

The dvd_read_bca function in the DVD handling code in drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c in Linux kernel 2.2.16, and later versions, assigns the wrong value to a length variable, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted USB Storage device that triggers a buffer overflow.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 2.2.16 <= 2.16.16) • debian debian linux 3.1 • canonical ubuntu linux 5.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 5.10 • canonical ubuntu linux 6.06

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input weakness

References