CVE-2006-0744 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2006-0744
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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: SA19639 Secunia Advisory: SA19735 Secunia Advisory: SA20157 Secunia Advisory: SA20237 Secunia Advisory: SA20716 Secunia Advisory: SA20914 Secunia Advisory: SA21136 Secunia Advisory: SA21179 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 OSVDB 24639 MANDRIVA http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:150 http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:086 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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