AMD K6 Processor Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-1999-1442 · HIGH Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Bug in AMD K6 processor on Linux 2.0.x and 2.1.x kernels allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a particular sequence of instructions, possibly related to accessing addresses outside of segments.

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