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kernel: denial of service

kernel: denial of service

Posted Apr 4, 2007 13:52 UTC (Wed) by robbe (guest, #16131)
Parent article: kernel: denial of service

The key service is a local one. How can a remote attacker exploit this
flaw?

Note that only one of the linked advisories (Fedora's) talk about a
remote exploit, the others (including CVE) assume it is a local privilege
escalation only.


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