CVE-1999-1442 Information

Description

Bug in AMD K6 processor on Linux 2.0.x and 2.1.x kernels allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a particular sequence of instructions possibly related to accessing addresses outside of segments.

Reference

http://uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9805.3/0855.html http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/Year-1998/1998-25/0816.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105