CVE-2006-5755

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2006-09-26
Bugzilla:
457718: CVE-2006-5755 kernel: local denial of service due to NT bit leakage

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Linux kernel before 2.6.18, when running on x86_64 systems, does not properly save or restore EFLAGS during a context switch, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by causing SYSENTER to set an NT flag, which can trigger a crash on the IRET of the next task.

Find out more about CVE-2006-5755 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (kernel) RHSA-2008:0957 2008-11-04

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