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kernel: denial of service

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2009-1914
Created:July 2, 2009 Updated:July 29, 2009
Description: The Linux kernel has a denial of service vulnerability. From the National Vulnerability Database entry: "The pci_register_iommu_region function in arch/sparc/kernel/pci_common.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.29 on the sparc64 platform allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by reading the /proc/iomem file, related to uninitialized pointers and the request_resource function."
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1844-1 2009-07-28
Ubuntu USN-793-1 2009-07-02

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