CVE-2006-0457

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2006-02-03
Bugzilla:
1618002: CVE-2006-0457 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2006-0457 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (kernel) RHSA-2006:0575 2006-08-10

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