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CVE-2006-5173

Date: October 17, 2006

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.

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Related Resources (14)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21851
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-5173
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_79_kernel.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/25691
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-395-1
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2006-5173
http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=47a5c6fa0e204a2b63309c648bb2fde36836c826
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:002
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471457
http://secunia.com/advisories/23361
http://secunia.com/advisories/23593
http://secunia.com/advisories/23384
http://secunia.com/advisories/23474
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2006-5173

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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