Candidate: CVE-2006-1055 References: Description: Quoting Greg KH: Al just pointed me at an old sysfs patch that went into the tree last year that has some potential security problems. Turns out that if you write to a sysfs file exactly PAGE_SIZE worth of data, with no zeros in it, there's a good chance you could read off the end of the kernel buffer into who knows where. Notes: jmm> This was judged non-exploitable by Al Viro, but it's still a local DoS jmm> 2.4 N/A, as it doesn't have sysfs . troyh> N/A for sarge, it was broken in 2.6.12 - 2.6.17-rc1. 2.6.8 is fine, and since its's sysfs 2.4 is N/A. Bugs: upstream: released (2.6.17-rc1), released (2.6.16.2) linux-2.6: released (2.6.16-6) 2.6.8-sarge-security: N/A 2.4.27-sarge-security: N/A 2.4.19-woody-security: N/A 2.4.18-woody-security: N/A 2.4.17-woody-security: N/A 2.4.16-woody-security: N/A 2.4.17-woody-security-hppa: N/A 2.4.17-woody-security-ia64: N/A