cve-2007-0006
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2007-02-06 19:00
Modified
2024-08-07 12:03
Severity ?
Summary
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."
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7727
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/24109Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/24259Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/24300Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/24429Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/24482Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/24547Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/24752Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/25691Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:047
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:060
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_21_kernel.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0085.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0099.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471457
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22539
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-451-1
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=227495
secalert@redhat.comhttps://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1097
secalert@redhat.comhttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9829
Impacted products
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