cve/2006/CVE-2006-0457.md

### [CVE-2006-0457](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0457)
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### Description

Race condition in the (1) add_key, (2) request_key, and (3) keyctl functions in Linux kernel 2.6.x allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) or read sensitive kernel memory by modifying the length of a string argument between the time that the kernel calculates the length and when it copies the data into kernel memory.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9566

#### Github
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