CVE-2007-0006 Information

Description

The key serial number collision avoidance code in the key_alloc_serial function in Linux kernel 2.6.9 up to 2.6.20 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors that trigger a null dereference as originally reported as \spinlock CPU recursion.\

Reference

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7727 http://secunia.com/advisories/24109 http://secunia.com/advisories/24259 http://secunia.com/advisories/24300 http://secunia.com/advisories/24429 http://secunia.com/advisories/24482 http://secunia.com/advisories/24547 http://secunia.com/advisories/24752 http://secunia.com/advisories/25691 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:047 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:060 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_21_kernel.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0085.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0099.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471457 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22539 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-451-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=227495 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1097 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9829