Re: rPSA-2006-0122-1 kernel [LWN.net]

From:		Paul Starzetz <paul-AT-starzetz.de>
To:		"Justin M. Forbes" <jmforbes-AT-rpath.com>
Subject:		Re: rPSA-2006-0122-1 kernel
Date:		Mon, 10 Jul 2006 11:36:00 +0200
Cc:		lwn-AT-lwn.net, update-announce-AT-lists.rpath.com, full-disclosure-AT-lists.grok.org.uk, security-announce-AT-lists.rpath.com, bugtraq-AT-securityfocus.com
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Justin M. Forbes wrote:

>Description:
>    Previous versions of the kernel package are vulnerable to two denial
>    of service attacks.  The first allows any local user to fill up file
>    systems by causing core dumps to write to directories to which they
>    do not have write access permissions.  The second applies only to
>  
>
I really wonder why in the recent past there is a tendence to declare 
such things as "denial of service" etc - while they are perfect root 
backdoors / vulns

*B000M* you are in one minut^K^K^Ke later...

Maybe this is just to hide the overall bad quality of the 2.6 kernel 
code? *just guessing*

Anyway CVE-2006-2451 is trivially exploitable so I don't attach any 
exploit code since it is obvious...

Paul Starzetz

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