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Tracker / CVE-2006-0557

CVE-2006-0557

Medium 4.9

sys_mbind in mempolicy.c in Linux kernel 2.6.16 and earlier does not sanity check the maxnod variable before making certain computations for the get_nodes function, which has unknown impact and attack vectors.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · … → 2.6.16

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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