CVE-2006-0557

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2006-02-17
Bugzilla:
1618010: CVE-2006-0557 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

sys_mbind in mempolicy.c in Linux kernel 2.6.16 and earlier does not sanity check the maxnod variable before making certain computations for the get_nodes function, which has unknown impact and attack vectors.

Find out more about CVE-2006-0557 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (kernel) RHBA-2007:0304 2007-04-28

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