CVE-2003-0986

Various routines for the ppc64 architecture on Linux kernel 2.6 prior to 2.6.2 and 2.4 prior to 2.4.24 do not use the copy_from_user function when copying data from userspace to kernelspace, which crosses security boundaries and allows local users to cause a denial of service.

Date published : 2006-02-27

http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4/cset@3fdd54b3u9Eq0Wny2Nn1HGfI3pofOQ

http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset@3ffcf122S7e3xPZCpibrXq6KRRjwqw