CVE-2006-5173 (GCVE-0-2006-5173)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2006-10-17 22:00
Modified
2024-08-07 19:41
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
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.
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