CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-5754

4.9 MEDIUM Published 2007-01-30 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-01-30
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

The aio_setup_ring function in Linux kernel does not properly initialize a variable, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via an unspecified error path that causes an incorrect free operation.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 2.6.11)

References