CVE-2006-0557 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2006-0557 at MITRE

Description

sys_mbind in mempolicy.c in Linux kernel 2.6.16 and earlier does not sanity check the maxnod variable before making certain computations for the get_nodes function, which has unknown impact and attack vectors.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	4.9
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 156049 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2006:028, published Wed, 31 May 2006 18:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 01:34:48 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:15:07 2023