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kernel: memory corruption

Package(s):linux-2.6.24 CVE #(s):CVE-2008-3831
Created:October 17, 2008 Updated:June 25, 2009
Description: Olaf Kirch discovered an issue with the i915 driver that may allow local users to cause memory corruption by use of an ioctl with insufficient privilege restrictions.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2009-6846 2009-06-23
Fedora FEDORA-2009-5383 2009-05-25
SuSE SUSE-SA:2009:003 2009-01-20
CentOS CESA-2008:1017 2008-12-17
Red Hat RHSA-2008:1017-01 2008-12-16
Ubuntu USN-679-1 2008-11-27
rPath rPSA-2008-0316-1 2008-11-12
Mandriva MDVSA-2008:224-1 2008-11-07
Mandriva MDVSA-2008:224 2008-11-04
Fedora FEDORA-2008-8929 2008-10-23
Fedora FEDORA-2008-8980 2008-10-23
Debian DSA-1655-1 2008-10-16
Red Hat RHSA-2009:0009-02 2009-01-22
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