CVE-2005-4618 Information

Description

Buffer overflow in sysctl in the Linux Kernel 2.6 before 2.6.15 allows local users to corrupt user memory and possibly cause a denial of service via a long string which causes sysctl to write a zero byte outside the buffer. NOTE: since the sysctl is called from a userland program that provides the argument this might not be a vulnerability unless a legitimate user-assisted or setuid scenario can be identified.

Reference

http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.15 http://secunia.com/advisories/18216 http://secunia.com/advisories/18527 http://secunia.com/advisories/19369 http://secunia.com/advisories/19374 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1017 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1018 http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=8febdd85adaa41fa1fc1cb31286210fc2cd3ed0c http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.15 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:040 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16141 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0035 https://usn.ubuntu.com/244-1/