CVE-2006-0557

Published: March 12, 2006Last modified: November 10, 2023

Description

sys_mbind in mempolicy.c in Linux kernel 2.6.16 and earlier does not sanity check the maxnod variable before making certain computations for the get_nodes function, which has unknown impact and attack vectors.

Status

References

• http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/27/355
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-0304.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19955
• http://secunia.com/advisories/20398
• http://secunia.com/advisories/20914
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1015752
• http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1103
• http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=636f13c174dd7c84a437d3c3e8fa66f03f7fda63
• http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=636f13c174dd7c84a437d3c3e8fa66f03f7fda63
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:059
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006-05-31.html
• http://www.osvdb.org/23895
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16924
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2554
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=184510
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25204
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9674
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/281-1/