CVE-2006-5755 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2006-5755
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Description: Linux kernel before 2.6.18, when running on x86_64 systems, does not properly save or restore EFLAGS during a context switch, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by causing SYSENTER to set an NT flag, which can trigger a crash on the IRET of the next task.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-416-1 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA24098 Secunia Advisory: SA25691 Secunia Advisory: SA26620 Secunia Advisory: SA26994 Secunia Advisory: SA32485 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0957.html MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:171 DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1381 CONFIRM http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.18-git13.log http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.18 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=658fdbef66e5e9be79b457edc2cbbb3add840aa9 http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=658fdbef66e5e9be79b457edc2cbbb3add840aa9 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471457 BID 26060

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