CVE-2006-0742 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2006-0742
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Description: The die_if_kernel function in arch/ia64/kernel/unaligned.c in Linux kernel 2.6.x before 2.6.15.6, possibly when compiled with certain versions of gcc, has the "noreturn" attribute set, which allows local users to cause a denial of service by causing user faults on Itanium systems.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/25068 UBUNTU http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-263-1 SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006-05-31.html SGI SAID Secunia Advisory: SA20914 Secunia Advisory: SA19220 Secunia Advisory: SA20671 Secunia Advisory: SA19078 Secunia Advisory: SA21136 Secunia Advisory: SA21465 Secunia Advisory: SA20398 Secunia Advisory: SA21983 Secunia Advisory: SA22417 Secunia Advisory: SA19607 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0575.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0437.html OSVDB 23660 MANDRIVA http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:059 DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1103 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1097 CONFIRM http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-200.htm http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-180.htm http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.15.6 BID 16993

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