Candidate: CVE-2006-0457 References: http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset@43e385c7rMAIqryXIl7lGGdWgZ1Ivg MANDRIVA:MDKSA-2006:059 URL:http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:059 UBUNTU:USN-263-1 URL:http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-263-1 BID:17084 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17084 OSVDB:23894 URL:http://www.osvdb.org/23894 SECUNIA:19220 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/19220 Description: Race condition in the (1) add_key, (2) request_key, and (3) keyctl functions in Linux kernel 2.6.x allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) or read sensitive kernel memory by modifying the length of a string argument between the time that the kernel calculates the length and when it copies the data into kernel memory. Notes: Bugs: upstream: released (2.6.10) linux-2.6: released (2.6.10-1) 2.6.8-sarge-security: N/A 2.4.27-sarge-security: N/A 2.4.19-woody-security: N/A 2.4.18-woody-security: N/A 2.4.17-woody-security: N/A 2.4.16-woody-security: N/A 2.4.17-woody-security-hppa: N/A 2.4.17-woody-security-ia64: N/A