CVE-2006-4538

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2006-08-23
Bugzilla:
289151: CVE-2006-4538 kernel: Local DoS with corrupted ELF

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Linux kernel 2.6.17 and earlier, when running on IA64 or SPARC platforms, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed ELF file that triggers memory maps that cross region boundaries.

Find out more about CVE-2006-4538 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (kernel) RHSA-2007:1049 2007-12-03
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (kernel) RHSA-2007:0014 2007-01-30
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (kernel) RHSA-2008:0787 2009-01-05

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