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CVE-2006-1066

LOW CVSS: 1.2 Published: 2006-03-27 Modified: 2026-06-16

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 Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References