CVE-2006-0557 Information

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.

Reference

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;a=commit;h=636f13c174dd7c84a437d3c3e8fa66f03f7fda63 http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=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/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9674 https://usn.ubuntu.com/281-1/