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kernel: denial of service

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2009-1046
Created:April 3, 2009 Updated:August 20, 2009
Description: The console selection feature in the Linux kernel when the UTF-8 console is used, allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) by selecting a small number of 3-byte UTF-8 characters, which triggers an an off-by-two memory error. It is is not clear if this can be exploited at all.
Alerts:
SuSE SUSE-SA:2009:045 2009-08-20
Debian DSA-1800-1 2009-05-15
Debian DSA-1787-1 2009-05-02
Red Hat RHSA-2009:0451-02 2009-04-29
Ubuntu USN-751-1 2009-04-07
SuSE SUSE-SA:2009:017 2009-04-03
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