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kernel: denial of service
| Package(s): | kernel | CVE #(s): | CVE-2008-1615 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Created: | May 7, 2008 | Updated: | July 21, 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description: | From the Red Hat advisory: on AMD64 architectures, the possibility of a kernel crash was discovered by testing the Linux kernel process-trace ability. This could allow a local unprivileged user to cause a denial of service (kernel crash). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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