CVE-2006-0457 (GCVE-0-2006-0457)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2006-03-14 02:00
Modified
2024-08-07 16:34
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
References
http://secunia.com/advisories/19220 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17084 vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0575.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006-05-31.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
http://secunia.com/advisories/21465 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9566 vdb-entry, signature, x_refsource_OVAL
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25354 vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-200.htm x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/20398 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/22417 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.osvdb.org/23894 vdb-entry, x_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:059 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA
https://usn.ubuntu.com/263-1/ vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a n/a Version: n/a
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