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CVE-2006-2448

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.6 Published: 2006-06-23 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Linux kernel before 2.6.16.21 and 2.6.17, when running on PowerPC, does not perform certain required access_ok checks, which allows local users to read arbitrary kernel memory on 64-bit systems (signal_64.c) and cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly read kernel memory on 32-bit systems (signal_32.c).

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References