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kernel: denial of service

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2009-0269
Created:February 26, 2009 Updated:June 9, 2009
Description: From the SUSE alert: fs/ecryptfs/inode.c in the eCryptfs subsystem in the Linux kernel before allows local users to cause a denial of service (fault or memory corruption), or possibly have unspecified other impact, via a readlink call that results in an error, leading to use of a -1 return value as an array index.
Alerts:
SuSE SUSE-SA:2009:031 2009-06-09
SuSE SUSE-SA:2009:030 2009-06-08
Mandriva MDVSA-2009:118 2009-05-19
Debian DSA-1787-1 2009-05-02
Ubuntu USN-751-1 2009-04-07
CentOS CESA-2009:0326 2009-04-01
Red Hat RHSA-2009:0326-01 2009-04-01
Red Hat RHSA-2009:0360-01 2009-03-26
Debian DSA-1749-1 2009-03-20
SuSE SUSE-SA:2009:010 2009-02-26
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