CVE-2006-5331 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2006-5331?

CVE-2006-5331 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 29 Oct 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-19

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-5331?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2006-5331?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-5331 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2006-5331 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-5331 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-gc23-69mx-hwjx.