CVE-2006-1066 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2006-1066
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Description: Linux kernel 2.6.16-rc2 and earlier, when running on x86_64 systems with preemption enabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service (oops) via multiple ptrace tasks that perform single steps, which can cause corruption of the DEBUG_STACK stack during the do_debug function call.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: UBUNTU http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-281-1 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA19374 Secunia Advisory: SA19955 Secunia Advisory: SA21614 OSVDB 24098 MLIST http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113932292516359&w=2 MANDRIVA http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:151 DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1017 BID 17216

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