Security Advisory

CVE-2006-2448

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2006-06-23 10:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 17:51:04

Assigner redhat

State PUBLISHED

Description

Linux kernel before 2.6.16.21 and 2.6.17, when running on PowerPC, does not perform certain required access_ok checks, which allows local users to read arbitrary kernel memory on 64-bit systems (signal_64.c) and cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly read kernel memory on 32-bit systems (signal_32.c).

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