VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2006-1066

CVSS score1.2 LOW
EPSS probability0.35%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2006-03-27
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

Linux kernel 2.6.16-rc2 and earlier, when running on x86_64 systems with preemption enabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service (oops) via multiple ptrace tasks that perform single steps, which can cause corruption of the DEBUG_STACK stack during the do_debug function call.

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