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Tracker / CVE-2006-2935

CVE-2006-2935

Medium 4.6

The dvd_read_bca function in the DVD handling code in drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c in Linux kernel 2.2.16, and later versions, assigns the wrong value to a length variable, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted USB Storage device that triggers a buffer overflow.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel · 2.2.16 → 2.16.16

Analysis

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