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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-2448
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2006-2448

Description:
Linux kernel before 2.6.16.21 and 2.6.17, when running on PowerPC, does not perform certain required access_ok checks, which allows local users to read arbitrary kernel memory on 64-bit systems (signal_64.c) and cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly read kernel memory on 32-bit systems (signal_32.c).

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

UBUNTU
  http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-311-1

TRUSTIX
  http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0037

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

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA20831
  Secunia Advisory: SA20991
  Secunia Advisory: SA20703
  Secunia Advisory: SA21179
  Secunia Advisory: SA21465
  Secunia Advisory: SA22417
  Secunia Advisory: SA21498

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0575.html

OVAL
  http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10040

CONFIRM
  http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-200.htm
  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.16.21
  http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7c85d1f9d358b24c5b05c3a2783a78423775a080

BUGTRAQ
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/438168/100/0/threaded

BID
  18616


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