CVE - CVE-2006-1066

CVE-ID
CVE-2006-1066	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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BID:17216 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17216 DEBIAN:DSA-1017 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1017 MANDRIVA:MDKSA-2006:151 URL:~~http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:151~~ (Obsolete source) MLIST:[linux-kernel] 20060207 [PATCH] arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c PTRACE_SINGLESTEP oops URL:http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=113932292516359&w=2 OSVDB:24098 URL:~~http://www.osvdb.org/24098~~ (Obsolete source) SECUNIA:19374 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/19374 SECUNIA:19955 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/19955 SECUNIA:21614 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/21614 UBUNTU:USN-281-1 URL:https://usn.ubuntu.com/281-1/
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20060307	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 (20060307)
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Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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