VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2006-0457
CVSS score7.1 HIGH
EPSS probability2.71%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2006-03-14
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:C
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.