CVE-2006-0557 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2006-0557
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Description: sys_mbind in mempolicy.c in Linux kernel 2.6.16 and earlier does not sanity check the maxnod variable before making certain computations for the get_nodes function, which has unknown impact and attack vectors.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/25204 UBUNTU http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-281-1 SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006-05-31.html ST 1015752 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA19955 Secunia Advisory: SA20914 Secunia Advisory: SA20398 OSVDB 23895 MANDRIVA http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:059 DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1103 CONFIRM http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=636f13c174dd7c84a437d3c3e8fa66f03f7fda63 http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=636f13c174dd7c84a437d3c3e8fa66f03f7fda63 http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/27/355 BID 16924

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