CVE-2006-3634

The CVE-2006-3634 entry describes a vulnerability in Linux kernel 2.6.17-rc4 through 2.6.18-rc2 where two futex helper functions, __futex_atomic_op and futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic, perform the atomic futex operation in kernel address space instead of user space. This misplacement can allow a lo...