CVE-2006-6013

Publication date 21 November 2006

Last updated 17 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Description

Integer signedness error in the fw_ioctl (FW_IOCTL) function in the FireWire (IEEE-1394) drivers (dev/firewire/fwdev.c) in various BSD kernels, including DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD 5.5, MidnightBSD 0.1-CURRENT before 20061115, NetBSD-current before 20061116, NetBSD-4 before 20061203, and TrustedBSD, allows local users to read arbitrary memory contents via certain negative values of crom_buf->len in an FW_GCROM command. NOTE: this issue has been labeled as an integer overflow, but it is more like an integer signedness error.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
kfreebsd-5 9.10 karmic Not in release
9.04 jaunty Not in release
8.10 intrepid
Fixed 5.4-21
8.04 LTS hardy
Fixed 5.4-21
7.10 gutsy
Fixed 5.4-21
7.04 feisty
Fixed 5.4-21
6.10 edgy Ignored end of life, was needed
6.06 LTS dapper Ignored end of life

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