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| author | Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debian.org> | 2007-04-30 17:08:05 +0000 |
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| committer | Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debian.org> | 2007-04-30 17:08:05 +0000 |
| commit | 6471f3dab8b9f08bf043c1fcc49f8a0bf467300a (patch) | |
| tree | 7dd98d6bb1c3629dde5999bcefede30fd9d5deee /retired/CVE-2006-5173 | |
| parent | 8290df912ecbf23e19610e57952fc68c45d59103 (diff) | |
retire several issues
git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/kernel-sec@774 e094ebfe-e918-0410-adfb-c712417f3574
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| -rw-r--r-- | retired/CVE-2006-5173 | 26 |
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diff --git a/retired/CVE-2006-5173 b/retired/CVE-2006-5173 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9f18d25e --- /dev/null +++ b/retired/CVE-2006-5173 @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +Candidate: CVE-2006-5173 +References: + http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=47a5c6fa0e204a2b63309c648bb2fde36836c826 +Description: + Alignment Check (AC) flag in EFLAGS is not saved/restored during task + switch, thus was leaking to other tasks. Those eventually died with a + SIGBUS. +Ubuntu-Description: + The task switching code did not save and restore EFLAGS of processes. + By starting a specially crafted executable, a local attacker could + exploit this to eventually crash many other running processes. +Notes: + incorrect optimization in some later 2.6.x kernel, reverted + Local DoS. + + Are we sure this affects 2.6.17 and before? The CFI_ADJUST_CFA_OFFSET + doesn't seem to be present in these kernels. +Bugs: +upstream: released (2.6.18) +linux-2.6: released (2.6.18-1) +2.6.8-sarge-security: N/A +2.4.27-sarge-security: N/A +2.6.10-hoary-security: N/A +2.6.12-breezy-security: N/A +2.6.15-dapper-security: released (2.6.15-27.49) +2.6.17-edgy: released (2.6.17.1-10.34) |