Bug 1618002 (CVE-2006-0457) - CVE-2006-0457 security flaw
Summary: CVE-2006-0457 security flaw
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2006-0457
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2018-08-16 11:35 UTC by Stephen Herr
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:55 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-08-16 11:35:59 UTC
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Description Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 11:35:52 UTC 
Flaw bug created to hold information about an old flaw we knew something about. For more details see the MITRE CVE description.
Comment 1 Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 16:36:50 UTC 
MITRE 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.
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