Description
OpenBSD 4.4, 4.5, and 4.6, when running on an i386 kernel, does not properly handle XMM exceptions, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via unspecified vectors.
References
- [4.5] 008: RELIABILITY FIX: October 05, 2009 vendor-advisory
- [4.6] 002: RELIABILITY FIX: October 05, 2009 vendor-advisory
- [4.4] 015: RELIABILITY FIX: October 05, 2009 vendor-advisory
- 36589 vdb-entry
- 36956 third-party-advisory
- [openbsd-security-announce] 20091005 OpenBSD patch: XMM exceptions incorrectly handled in i386 kernel mailing-list