CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-5331
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-10-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-19
Description
The altivec_unavailable_exception function in arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.19 on 64-bit systems mishandles the case where CONFIG_ALTIVEC is defined and the CPU actually supports Altivec, but the Altivec support was not detected by the kernel, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) by triggering execution of an Altivec instruction.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.19)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6c4841c2b6c32a134f9f36e5e08857138cc12b10 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.linuxgrill.com/anonymous/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.19 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=213229 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6c4841c2b6c32a134f9f36e5e08857138cc12b10 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6c4841c2b6c32a134f9f36e5e08857138cc12b10 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.linuxgrill.com/anonymous/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.19 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=213229 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6c4841c2b6c32a134f9f36e5e08857138cc12b10 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory