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CVE-2006-5173

LOW CVSS: 2.1 Published: 2006-10-17 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Linux kernel does not properly save or restore EFLAGS during a context switch, or reset the flags when creating new threads, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (process crash), as demonstrated using a process that sets the Alignment Check flag (EFLAGS 0x40000), which triggers a SIGBUS in other processes that have an unaligned access.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux KernelCanonical Ubuntu Linux

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References