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CVE-2006-1066

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

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Summary

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.

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References 9

usn.ubuntu.com

mandriva.com

secunia.com

securityfocus.com

osvdb.org

debian.org

marc.info