CVE-2006-0557

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.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/281-1/

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9674

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25204

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=184510

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2554

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16924

http://www.osvdb.org/23895

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006-05-31.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:059

http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=636f13c174dd7c84a437d3c3e8fa66f03f7fda63

http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=636f13c174dd7c84a437d3c3e8fa66f03f7fda63

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1103

http://securitytracker.com/id?1015752

http://secunia.com/advisories/20914

http://secunia.com/advisories/20398

http://secunia.com/advisories/19955

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-0304.html

http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/27/355

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3