Linux Kernel Uncleared HID0[31] Denial of Service

Monday, August 21 2006 @ 02:57 PM EDT

Contributed by: sde

A vulnerability has been reported in Linux Kernel, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error on PPC970 when the support processor attention enable bit (HID0[31]) is set.

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