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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-0744
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2006-0744

Description:
Linux kernel before 2.6.16.5 does not properly handle uncanonical return addresses on Intel EM64T CPUs, which reports an exception in the SYSRET instead of the next instruction, which causes the kernel exception handler to run on the user stack with the wrong GS.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/25869

UBUNTU
  http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-302-1

SUSE
  http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_47_kernel.html
  http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_42_kernel.html
  http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006-05-31.html

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA21179
  Secunia Advisory: SA21136
  Secunia Advisory: SA19735
  Secunia Advisory: SA20157
  Secunia Advisory: SA20914
  Secunia Advisory: SA20237
  Secunia Advisory: SA19639
  Secunia Advisory: SA20716
  Secunia Advisory: SA21745
  Secunia Advisory: SA20398
  Secunia Advisory: SA21983
  Secunia Advisory: SA21498

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0437.html
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0493.html

OVAL
  http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9732

OSVDB
  24639

MANDRIVA
  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:086
  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:150

FEDORA
  http://lwn.net/Alerts/180820/

DEBIAN
  http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1103

CONFIRM
  http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-180.htm
  http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-161.htm
  http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.16.5

BID
  17541


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