CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 4.9. It affects Linux.
CVE
CVE-2006-0744
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
4.9
EPSS
0.46%
Linux
Original NVD Description
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.