fkie_cve-2007-0006
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2007-02-06 19:28
Modified
2025-04-09 00:30
Severity ?
Summary
The key serial number collision avoidance code in the key_alloc_serial function in Linux kernel 2.6.9 up to 2.6.20 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors that trigger a null dereference, as originally reported as "spinlock CPU recursion."
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.9 |
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