VOMIT (go/vomit) has received an external vulnerability report for the Linux kernel. 

Advisory: CVE-2006-5331
  Details: http://vomit.googleplex.com/advisory?id=CVE/CVE-2006-5331
  CVSS severity score: 4.9/10.0
  Description:

The altivec_unavailable_exception function in arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.19 on 64-bit systems mishandles the case where CONFIG_ALTIVEC is defined and the CPU actually supports Altivec, but the Altivec support was not detected by the kernel, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) by triggering execution of an Altivec instruction.



This bug was filed by http://go/vomit
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