Description
The signal handling in the Linux kernel before 2.6.22, including 2.6.2, when running on PowerPC systems using HTX, allows local users to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors involving floating point corruption and concurrency, related to clearing of MSR bits.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0595.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25955 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27227 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26664 ↗
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_51_kernel.html ↗
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_53_kernel.html ↗
- http://osvdb.org/37118 ↗
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9936 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28706 ↗
- http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=245580 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24845 ↗
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018347 ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35383 ↗
- http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.22 ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-574-1 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25963 ↗