A vulnerability has been identified in Linux Kernel, which could be exploited by local attackers to cause a denial of service. This flaw is due to an error when handling uncanonical return addresses on Intel EM64T CPUs, which could cause the exception handler to run on the user stack with the wrong GS, creating a denial of service condition.
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2006-04-18 : Initial release
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