kernel: denial of service [LWN.net]

Package(s):

kernel

CVE #(s):

CVE-2008-5079

Created:

December 9, 2008

Updated:

October 5, 2009

Description:

From the CVE entry: net/atm/svc.c in the ATM subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.6.27.8 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel infinite loop) by making two calls to svc_listen for the same socket, and then reading a /proc/net/atm/*vc file, related to corruption of the vcc table.

Alerts:

Fedora	FEDORA-2009-8647	2009-08-15
Fedora	FEDORA-2009-8264	2009-08-04
Fedora	FEDORA-2009-6883	2009-06-23
Fedora	FEDORA-2009-6846	2009-06-23
Fedora	FEDORA-2009-10165	2009-10-03
Fedora	FEDORA-2009-5383	2009-05-25
Fedora	FEDORA-2009-5356	2009-05-25
Debian	DSA-1787-1	2009-05-02
SuSE	SUSE-SA:2009:010	2009-02-26
Red Hat	RHSA-2009:0021-01	2009-02-24
Fedora	FEDORA-2008-11618	2008-07-29
Fedora	FEDORA-2008-11593	2008-12-26
Red Hat	RHSA-2009:0053-01	2009-02-04
Ubuntu	USN-714-1	2009-01-29
SuSE	SUSE-SA:2009:008	2009-01-29
Debian	DSA-1687-1	2008-12-15
rPath	rPSA-2008-0332-1	2008-12-09
Mandriva	MDVSA-2009:032	2009-01-30
Ubuntu	USN-715-1	2009-01-29
SuSE	SUSE-SA:2009:004	2009-01-21
Red Hat	RHSA-2009:0225-02	2009-01-20
SuSE	SUSE-SA:2009:003	2009-01-20

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