{"document":{"aggregate_severity":{"namespace":"https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/","text":"low"},"category":"csaf_vex","csaf_version":"2.0","distribution":{"text":"Copyright 2024 SUSE LLC. All rights reserved.","tlp":{"label":"WHITE","url":"https://www.first.org/tlp/"}},"lang":"en","notes":[{"category":"summary","text":"SUSE CVE-2006-5173","title":"Title"},{"category":"description","text":"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.","title":"Description of the CVE"},{"category":"legal_disclaimer","text":"CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).","title":"Terms of use"}],"publisher":{"category":"vendor","contact_details":"https://www.suse.com/support/security/contact/","name":"SUSE Product Security Team","namespace":"https://www.suse.com/"},"references":[{"category":"external","summary":"CVE-2006-5173","url":"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2006-5173"},{"category":"external","summary":"SUSE Security Ratings","url":"https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/"},{"category":"external","summary":"SUSE Bug 209386 for CVE-2006-5173","url":"https://bugzilla.suse.com/209386"},{"category":"external","summary":"Advisory link for SUSE-SA:2006:079","url":"https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announce@lists.opensuse.org/thread/PXZJTAPEOPVLCSHRFZGAHVOIP7BTJS4F/#PXZJTAPEOPVLCSHRFZGAHVOIP7BTJS4F"}],"title":"SUSE CVE CVE-2006-5173","tracking":{"current_release_date":"2024-09-10T06:13:26Z","generator":{"date":"2023-02-15T06:14:11Z","engine":{"name":"cve-database.git:bin/generate-csaf-vex.pl","version":"1"}},"id":"CVE-2006-5173","initial_release_date":"2023-02-15T06:14:11Z","revision_history":[{"date":"2023-02-15T06:14:11Z","number":"2","summary":"Current version"},{"date":"2023-12-08T05:19:59Z","number":"3","summary":"Current version"},{"date":"2023-12-09T03:41:51Z","number":"4","summary":"Current version"},{"date":"2024-09-10T06:13:26Z","number":"5","summary":"Current version"}],"status":"interim","version":"5"}}}