CVE-2006-1066

Description

Linux kernel 2.6.16-rc2 and earlier, when running on x86_64 systems with preemption enabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service (oops) via multiple ptrace tasks that perform single steps, which can cause corruption of the DEBUG_STACK stack during the do_debug function call.

References

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

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17216

http://www.osvdb.org/24098

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:151

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1017

http://secunia.com/advisories/21614

http://secunia.com/advisories/19955

http://secunia.com/advisories/19374

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=113932292516359&w=2

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3