CVE-2004-0554

Publication date

2004-06-15 04:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

Linux kernel 2.4.x and 2.6.x for x86 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash), possibly via an infinite loop that triggers a signal handler with a certain sequence of fsave and frstor instructions, as originally demonstrated using a "crash.c" program.