PT-2006-6356 · Canonical · Ubuntu

Fabio Massimo Di Nitto · CVE-2006-5649 · Published 2006-12-14 · Updated 2025-04-03

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Ubuntu versions 5.10, 6.06 LTS, and 6.10 for PowerPC (PPC)

Description: The issue is related to an unspecified vulnerability in the alignment check exception handling, which allows local users to cause a denial of service, resulting in a kernel panic, via unspecified vectors.

Recommendations: For Ubuntu versions 5.10, 6.06 LTS, and 6.10 for PowerPC (PPC), at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-5649

DSA-1233

DSA-1237

Affected Products

Ubuntu

References · 12

• http://us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1237 · Vendor Advisory
• http://novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_79_kernel.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-5649 · Security Note
• http://us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1233 · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/cvenotify/117592 · Telegram Post
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23361 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23474 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23370 · Note
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-395-1 · Patch, Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/21523 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23395 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23384 · Note