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kernel: denial of service

Package(s):linux, linux-source-2.6.15/22 CVE #(s):CVE-2008-5025
Created:November 27, 2008 Updated:February 10, 2009
Description: The kernel has a denial of service vulnerability. From the vulnerability database: Stack-based buffer overflow in the hfs_cat_find_brec function in fs/hfs/catalog.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28-rc1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or system crash) via an hfs filesystem image with an invalid catalog namelength field, a related issue to CVE-2008-4933.
Alerts:
CentOS CESA-2009:0014 2009-01-15
Mandriva MDVSA-2008:246 2008-12-29
Red Hat RHSA-2009:0264-01 2009-02-10
SuSE SUSE-SA:2009:008 2009-01-29
Debian DSA-1687-1 2008-12-15
Debian DSA-1681-1 2008-12-04
Ubuntu USN-679-1 2008-11-27
SuSE SUSE-SA:2009:004 2009-01-21
SuSE SUSE-SA:2009:003 2009-01-20
Red Hat RHSA-2009:0014-01 2009-01-14

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