CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-0557

4.9 MEDIUM Published 2006-03-12 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-03-12
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
bc94ec7e-8909-4cbb-83df-d2fc9330fa88
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

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 configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 2.6.16) • linux linux kernel 2.6.0 • linux linux kernel 2.6.1 • linux linux kernel 2.6.2 • linux linux kernel 2.6.3 • linux linux kernel 2.6.4 • linux linux kernel 2.6.5 • linux linux kernel 2.6.6 • linux linux kernel 2.6.7 • linux linux kernel 2.6.8 • linux linux kernel 2.6.8.1 • linux linux kernel 2.6.9 • linux linux kernel 2.6.10 • linux linux kernel 2.6.11 • linux linux kernel 2.6.11.1 • linux linux kernel 2.6.11.2 • linux linux kernel 2.6.11.3 • linux linux kernel 2.6.11.4 • linux linux kernel 2.6.11.5 • linux linux kernel 2.6.11.6 • linux linux kernel 2.6.11.7 • linux linux kernel 2.6.11.8 • linux linux kernel 2.6.11.9 • linux linux kernel 2.6.11.10 • linux linux kernel 2.6.11.11 • linux linux kernel 2.6.11.12 • linux linux kernel 2.6.12 • linux linux kernel 2.6.12.1 • linux linux kernel 2.6.12.2 • linux linux kernel 2.6.12.3 • linux linux kernel 2.6.12.4 • linux linux kernel 2.6.12.5 • linux linux kernel 2.6.12.6 • linux linux kernel 2.6.13 • linux linux kernel 2.6.13.1 • linux linux kernel 2.6.13.2 • linux linux kernel 2.6.13.3 • linux linux kernel 2.6.13.4 • linux linux kernel 2.6.13.5 • linux linux kernel 2.6.14 • linux linux kernel 2.6.14.1 • linux linux kernel 2.6.14.2 • linux linux kernel 2.6.14.3 • linux linux kernel 2.6.14.4 • linux linux kernel 2.6.14.5 • linux linux kernel 2.6.14.6 • linux linux kernel 2.6.14.7 • linux linux kernel 2.6.15 • linux linux kernel 2.6.15.1 • linux linux kernel 2.6.15.2 • linux linux kernel 2.6.15.3 • linux linux kernel 2.6.15.4 • linux linux kernel 2.6.15.5 • linux linux kernel 2.6.15.6 • linux linux kernel 2.6.15.7 • linux linux kernel 2.6.16

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