{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2006-09-26T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: local denial of service due to NT bit leakage",
    "id" : "457718",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457718"
  },
  "details" : [ "Linux kernel before 2.6.18, when running on x86_64 systems, does not properly save or restore EFLAGS during a context switch, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by causing SYSENTER to set an NT flag, which can trigger a crash on the IRET of the next task." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2008-11-04T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2008:0957",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.18-92.1.18.el5"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-5755\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-5755" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2006-5755",
  "csaw" : false
}