CVE-2006-5173
No CVSS score yet. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Linux kernel does not properly save or restore EFLAGS during a context switch, or reset the flags when creating new threads, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (process crash), as demonstrated using a process that sets the Alignment Check flag (EFLAGS 0x40000), which triggers a SIGBUS in other processes that have an unaligned access.
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 37% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
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- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- linux:linux_kernel