CVE-2006-0457

Publication date 14 March 2006

Last updated 24 July 2024


Ubuntu priority

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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Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-263-1
    • Linux kernel vulnerabilities
    • 13 March 2006

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