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Linux Kernel Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA14585
Release Date: 2005-03-18
Last Update: 2006-05-24
Popularity: 13,020 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Unknown
DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Linux Kernel 2.6.x

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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in the Linux kernel. One has an unknown impact, the rest can be exploited by malicious, local users, or by malicious people, to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

1) A boundary error exists in the ROSE "rose_rt_ioctl()" function due to missing verification of the ndigis argument of new routes. This can be exploited to crash the kernel by calling the function with a large ngidis argument.

2) Any user with permissions to access a SCSI tape device can send some commands, which may cause it to become unusable for other users.

3) A race condition in ebtables netfilter module (ebtables.c) when running on an SMP system operating under a heavy load, may be exploited to cause a DoS (kernel panic) via a series of packets.

4) An error in the maintaining of cache coherency in "mprotect.c" on Itanium IA64 processors can be exploited by local users to cause a DoS and possibly corrupt data by modifying PTE protections.

5) Certain debugging code that is present in the "choose_new_parent()" function in "kernel/exit.c" can be exploited by local users to cause a DoS.

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