CVE-2006-2936

The ftdi_sio driver (usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c) in Linux kernel 2.6.x up to 2.6.17, and possibly later versions, allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by writing more data to the serial port than the hardware can handle, which causes the data to be queued.

Date published : 2006-07-10

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19033

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/440300/100/0/threaded