Security Advisory

CVE-2006-2071

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2006-04-27 17:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 17:35:31
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

Linux kernel 2.4.x and 2.6.x up to 2.6.16 allows local users to bypass IPC permissions and modify a readonly attachment of shared memory by using mprotect to give write permission to the attachment. NOTE: some original raw sources combined this issue with CVE-2006-1524, but they are different bugs.