CVE-2006-4538 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2006-4538
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Description: Linux kernel 2.6.17 and earlier, when running on IA64 or SPARC platforms, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed ELF file that triggers memory maps that cross region boundaries.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-347-1 SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_79_kernel.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA23997 Secunia Advisory: SA21967 Secunia Advisory: SA23370 Secunia Advisory: SA23395 Secunia Advisory: SA21999 Secunia Advisory: SA24206 Secunia Advisory: SA24482 Secunia Advisory: SA23474 Secunia Advisory: SA27913 Secunia Advisory: SA33280 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0787.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1049.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0014.html MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:060 DEBIAN http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1237 http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1233 CONFIRM http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-063.htm http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.17.11 http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.17.y.git;a=commit;h=8833ebaa3f4325820fe3338ccf6fae04f6669254 http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/4/116 BID 19702

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