CVE-2006-5173

Linux kernel does not properly save or restore EFLAGS during a context switch, or reset the flags when creating new threads, which allows local users to cause a denial of service process crash, as demonstrated using a process that sets the Alignment Check flag EFLAGS 0x40000, which triggers a...

Debian DSA-1070-1 : kernel-source-2.4.19 - several vulnerabilities

Several local and remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2004-0427 A local denial of service vulnerability i...

ChangeLog-2.6.16.9

commit 9d395d1961a0eeb9e8b1ef2854f3ca8f0b985266 Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman [email protected] Date: Tue Apr 18 23:10:14 2006 -0700 Linux 2.6.16.9 commit 7466f9e72dac13452d871a3fb72fc7bd9c93c864 Author: Andi Kleen [email protected] Date: Wed Apr 19 07:17:31 2006 +0200 PATCH i386/x86-64: Fix x87 information...

security flaw

Floating point information leak in the context switch code for Linux 2.4.x only checks the MFH bit but does not verify the FPH owner, which allows local users to read register values of other processes by setting the MFH bit...

CVE-2004-0565

Floating point information leak in the context switch code for Linux 2.4.x only checks the MFH bit but does not verify the FPH owner, which allows local users to read register values of other processes by setting the MFH bit...

CVE-2004-0565

Floating point information leak in the context switch code for Linux 2.4.x only checks the MFH bit but does not verify the FPH owner, which allows local users to read register values of other processes by setting the MFH bit...