CVE-2006-0457 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2006-0457 at MITRE

Description

Race condition in the (1) add_key, (2) request_key, and (3) keyctl functions in Linux kernel 2.6.x allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) or read sensitive kernel memory by modifying the length of a string argument between the time that the kernel calculates the length and when it copies the data into kernel memory.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.1
Vector	AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:C
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	High
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 151775 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2006:028, published Wed, 31 May 2006 18:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 01:31:44 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:14:44 2025