{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2006-09-28T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "security flaw",
    "id" : "1618209",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1618209"
  },
  "details" : [ "The copy_from_user function in the uaccess code in Linux kernel 2.6 before 2.6.19-rc1, when running on s390, does not properly clear a kernel buffer, which allows local user space programs to read portions of kernel memory by \"appending to a file from a bad address,\" which triggers a fault that prevents the unused memory from being cleared in the kernel buffer." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3",
    "release_date" : "2006-10-20T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2006:0710",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.4.21-47.0.1.EL"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "release_date" : "2007-01-30T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2007:0014",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.9-42.0.8.EL"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-5174\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-5174" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2006-5174",
  "csaw" : false
}