Linux kernel before 2.6.16.5 does not properly handle...
Moderate severity
Unreviewed
Published
May 1, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Jan 31, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Apr 18, 2006
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 1, 2022
Last updated
Jan 31, 2023
Linux kernel before 2.6.16.5 does not properly handle uncanonical return addresses on Intel EM64T CPUs, which reports an exception in the SYSRET instead of the next instruction, which causes the kernel exception handler to run on the user stack with the wrong GS.
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