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.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2006-07-10T19:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-07T18:06:27.205Z
Reserved: 2006-06-09T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2006-2936
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2006-07-10T19:05:00.000
Modified: 2024-11-21T00:12:26.520
Link: CVE-2006-2936
Redhat