CVE-2006-0457
Published: 14 March 2006
Race condition in the (1) add_key, (2) request_key, and (3) keyctl functions in Linux kernel 2.6.x allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) or read sensitive kernel memory by modifying the length of a string argument between the time that the kernel calculates the length and when it copies the data into kernel memory.
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| Package | Release | Status |
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linux-source-2.6.12 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
upstream |
Needs triage
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