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.
Affected products
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n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/281-1/ ↗
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:151 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21614 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19955 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17216 ↗
- http://www.osvdb.org/24098 ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1017 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19374 ↗
- http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=113932292516359&w=2 ↗