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CVE-2005-4639

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Buffer overflow in the CA-driver (dst_ca.c) for TwinHan DST Frontend/Card in Linux kernel 2.6.12 and other versions before 2.6.15 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by "reading more than 8 bytes into an 8 byte long array".

Date published : 2006-01-10

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16142

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.15

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