CVE-2006-2448 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2006-2448?

CVE-2006-2448 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 23 Jun 2006. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Linux kernel before 2.6.16.21 and 2.6.17, when running on PowerPC, does not perform certain required access_ok checks, which allows local users to read arbitrary kernel memory on 64-bit systems (signal_64.c) and cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly read kernel memory on 32-bit systems (signal_32.c).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-2448?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2006-2448?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2006-2448 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-2448 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-8rwv-rq96-v6gg.