Candidate: CVE-2006-5754 References: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220971 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. Ubuntu-Description: Notes: jmm> 3e45a10919b3bc290147d81a4eb0117f019ba16a dannf> From the description, I'm assuming this is the fix: http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/?PAGE=cset&REV=418e67e3jfC3msWLXzcdTkI10dwtEg 'aio: remove incorrect initialization of "nr_pages"' Bugs: upstream: released (2.6.10-rc2) linux-2.6: released (2.6.10-1) 2.6.18-etch-security: N/A 2.6.8-sarge-security: released (2.6.8-16sarge7) [aio-fix-nr_pages-init.dpatch] 2.4.27-sarge-security: N/A 2.6.15-dapper-security: N/A 2.6.17-edgy-security: N/A