CVE-2006-5173
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2006-10-17 22:00
Modified
2024-08-07 19:41
Severity ?
Summary
Linux kernel does not properly save or restore EFLAGS during a context switch, or reset the flags when creating new threads, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (process crash), as demonstrated using a process that sets the Alignment Check flag (EFLAGS 0x40000), which triggers a SIGBUS in other processes that have an unaligned access.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=47a5c6fa0e204a2b63309c648bb2fde36836c826
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/23361Broken Link
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/23384Broken Link
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/23474Broken Link
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/23593Broken Link
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/25691Broken Link
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:002Broken Link
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_79_kernel.htmlBroken Link
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471457Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21851Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-395-1Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=47a5c6fa0e204a2b63309c648bb2fde36836c826
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/23361Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/23384Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/23474Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/23593Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/25691Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:002Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_79_kernel.htmlBroken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471457Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21851Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-395-1Third Party Advisory
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