CVE-2006-2936 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2006-2936 at MITRE

Description

The ftdi_sio driver (usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c) in Linux kernel 2.6.x up to 2.6.17, and possibly later versions, allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by writing more data to the serial port than the hardware can handle, which causes the data to be queued.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.8
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 191836 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2007:018, published Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SA:2007:021, published Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SA:2007:030, published Thu, 10 May 2007 11:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SA:2007:035, published Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 03:12:19 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:16:39 2023