4.9 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
43.2%
Linux kernel before 2.6.16.5 does not properly handle uncanonical return
addresses on Intel EM64T CPUs, which reports an exception in the SYSRET
instead of the next instruction, which causes the kernel exception handler
to run on the user stack with the wrong GS.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
ubuntu | 6.06 | noarch | linux-source-2.6.15 | < 2.6.15-29.58 | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 6.10 | noarch | linux-source-2.6.17 | < 2.6.17.1-12.40 | UNKNOWN |