CVE-2006-5173 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2006-5173 at MITRE

Description

Linux kernel does not properly save or restore EFLAGS during a context switch, or reset the flags when creating new threads, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (process crash), as demonstrated using a process that sets the Alignment Check flag (EFLAGS 0x40000), which triggers a SIGBUS in other processes that have an unaligned access.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently not rated by SUSE as it is not affecting the SUSE Enterprise products.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	2.1
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 209386 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2006:079, published Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 05:13:47 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Sep 9 20:43:57 2024