CVE-2004-0554 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2004-0554
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Description: Linux kernel 2.4.x and 2.6.x for x86 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash), possibly via an infinite loop that triggers a signal handler with a certain sequence of fsave and frstor instructions, as originally demonstrated using a "crash.c" program.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/16412 TRUSTIX http://www.trustix.net/errata/2004/0034/ SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_17_kernel.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA20338 Secunia Advisory: SA20202 Secunia Advisory: SA20163 Secunia Advisory: SA20162 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-260.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-255.html OVAL http://oval.mitre.org/oval/definitions/data/oval2915.html MLIST http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108681568931323&w=2 MISC http://linuxreviews.org/news/2004-06-11_kernel_crash/index.html http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15905 MANDRAKE http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:062 GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200407-02.xml FEDORA http://lwn.net/Articles/91155/ ENGARDE http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=108793699910896&w=2 DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1067 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1069 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1082 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1070 CONECTIVA http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000845 CERT-VN 973654 BUGTRAQ http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=108786114032681&w=2 BID 10566

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