Security Advisory

CVE-2006-4813

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2006-10-12 20:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 19:23:41
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The __block_prepare_write function in fs/buffer.c for Linux kernel 2.6.x before 2.6.13 does not properly clear buffers during certain error conditions, which allows local users to read portions of files that have been unlinked.