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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2006-5648

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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2006-5648

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
12/13/2006
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/17/2015
Modified
06/21/2018

Description

Ubuntu Linux 6.10 for the PowerPC (PPC) allows local users to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by using the (1) sys_get_robust_list and (2) sys_set_robust_list functions to create processes that cannot be killed.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-kernel-64k-pagesize
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-bigsmp
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-debug
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-iseries64
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-pmac64
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-pseries64
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-s390
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-s390x
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-smp
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-sn2
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-source
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-syms
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-um
  • suse-upgrade-um-host-install-initrd
  • suse-upgrade-um-host-kernel

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