CVE-2006-1055 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2006-1055?

CVE-2006-1055 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 5 Apr 2006. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The fill_write_buffer function in sysfs/file.c in Linux kernel 2.6.12 up to versions before 2.6.17-rc1 does not zero terminate a buffer when a length of PAGE_SIZE or more is requested, which might allow local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by causing an out-of-bounds read.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-1055?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2006-1055?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-1055 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2006-1055 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-1055 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-49f2-whh8-j6x3.