CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-6535

9.4 HIGH 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])
9.4 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

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.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel 2.6.0

References