CVE-2006-0457 Information

Description

Race condition in the (1) add_key (2) request_key and (3) keyctl functions in Linux kernel 2.6.x allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) or read sensitive kernel memory by modifying the length of a string argument between the time that the kernel calculates the length and when it copies the data into kernel memory.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/19220 http://secunia.com/advisories/20398 http://secunia.com/advisories/21465 http://secunia.com/advisories/22417 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-200.htm 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/23894 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0575.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17084 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25354 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9566 https://usn.ubuntu.com/263-1/