CVE-2006-0457

Published Mar 14, 2006

Last updated 6 years ago

Overview

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.
Source
secalert@redhat.com
NVD status
Modified

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Hype score
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Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
7.1
Impact score
9.2
Exploitability score
4.9
Vector string
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
NVD-CWE-Other

Configurations