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CVE-2006-0457

HIGH CVSS: 7.1 Published: 2006-03-14 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Race condition in the (1) add_key, (2) request_key, and (3) keyctl functions in Linux kernel 2.6.x allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) or read sensitive kernel memory by modifying the length of a string argument between the time that the kernel calculates the length and when it copies the data into kernel memory.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References