Vulnerability Details CVE-2006-2448
Linux kernel before 2.6.16.21 and 2.6.17, when running on PowerPC, does not perform certain required access_ok checks, which allows local users to read arbitrary kernel memory on 64-bit systems (signal_64.c) and cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly read kernel memory on 32-bit systems (signal_32.c).
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 25.3%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v2 Score 5.6
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20703
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20831
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20991
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21179
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21465
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21498
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22417
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-200.htm
- http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7c85d1f9d358b24c5b05c3a2783a78423775a080
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.16.21
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_42_kernel.html
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_47_kernel.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0575.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438168/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18616
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0037
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-311-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2451
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=194215
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10040
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20703
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20831
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20991
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21179
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21465
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21498
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22417
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-200.htm
- http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7c85d1f9d358b24c5b05c3a2783a78423775a080
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.16.21
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_42_kernel.html
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_47_kernel.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0575.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438168/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18616
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0037
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-311-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2451
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=194215
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10040
Products affected by CVE-2006-2448
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.0
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.1
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.10
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.11
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.11.11
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.11.12
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.11.5
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.11.6
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.11.7
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.11.8
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.12
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.12.1
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.12.2
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.12.3
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.12.4
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.12.5
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.12.6
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.13
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.13.1
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.13.2
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.13.3
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.13.4
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.14
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.14.1
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.14.2
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.14.3
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.14.4
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.14.5
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.15
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.15.1
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.15.2
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.15.3
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.15.4
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.15.5
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.16
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.16.1
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.16.10
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.16.11
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.16.12
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.16.13
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.16.14
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.16.15
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.16.16
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.16.18
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.16.19
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.16.2
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.16.20
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.16.3
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.16.4
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.16.5
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.16.6
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.16.7
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.16.8
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.16.9
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.2
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.3
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.4
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.5
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.6
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.7
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.8
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.9
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6_test9_cvs