Security Advisory

CVE-2006-4538

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2006-09-05 19:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 19:14:47
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.