CVE-2006-5173
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Oct 17, 2006
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 5, 2006
Description
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- SUSE-SA:2006:079vendor-advisory
- 23361third-party-advisory
- 23593third-party-advisory
- 23384third-party-advisory
- 21851vdb-entry
- http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=47a5c6fa0e204a2b63309c648bb2fde36836c826
- 23474third-party-advisory
- 20070615 rPSA-2007-0124-1 kernel xenmailing-list
- MDKSA-2007:002vendor-advisory
- USN-395-1vendor-advisory
- 25691third-party-advisory
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