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Fedora update for Kernel
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA10335
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Release Date:
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2003-12-03
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Popularity:
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7,087 views
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Critical:
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Not critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| OS: | Fedora Core 1
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
Red Hat has issued updated packages for the kernel. These fix a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is reportedly caused due to an error in the error return on a concurrent fork with a threaded exit. This can be exploited to crash the kernel.
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