CVE-2006-0744

2006-04-1800:00:00

ubuntu.com

4.9 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

42.3%

JSON

Linux kernel before 2.6.16.5 does not properly handle uncanonical return
addresses on Intel EM64T CPUs, which reports an exception in the SYSRET
instead of the next instruction, which causes the kernel exception handler
to run on the user stack with the wrong GS.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu6.06noarchlinux-source-2.6.15< 2.6.15-29.58UNKNOWN
ubuntu6.10noarchlinux-source-2.6.17< 2.6.17.1-12.40UNKNOWN