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kernel: denial of service

Package(s):kernel-debug CVE #(s):CVE-2008-5700
Created:January 20, 2009 Updated:May 4, 2009
Description: From the SUSE advisory: libata did not set minimum timeouts for SG_IO requests, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (Programmed I/O mode on drives) via multiple simultaneous invocations of an unspecified test program.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1787-1 2009-05-02
CentOS CESA-2009:0331 2009-04-20
CentOS CESA-2009:0326 2009-04-01
Red Hat RHSA-2009:0326-01 2009-04-01
Red Hat RHSA-2009:0331-01 2009-03-12
SuSE SUSE-SA:2009:010 2009-02-26
Red Hat RHSA-2009:0053-01 2009-02-04
Ubuntu USN-714-1 2009-01-29
SuSE SUSE-SA:2009:003 2009-01-20
Ubuntu USN-715-1 2009-01-29
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