CVE - CVE-2006-5173

CVE-ID
CVE-2006-5173	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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BID:21851 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21851 BUGTRAQ:20070615 rPSA-2007-0124-1 kernel xen URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471457 CONFIRM:http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=47a5c6fa0e204a2b63309c648bb2fde36836c826 MANDRIVA:MDKSA-2007:002 URL:~~http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:002~~ (Obsolete source) SECUNIA:23361 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/23361 SECUNIA:23384 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/23384 SECUNIA:23474 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/23474 SECUNIA:23593 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/23593 SECUNIA:25691 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/25691 SUSE:SUSE-SA:2006:079 URL:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_79_kernel.html UBUNTU:USN-395-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-395-1
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20061005	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20061005)
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Comments (Legacy)

Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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