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Red Hat update for dump
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA16328
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Release Date:
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2005-08-04
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Popularity:
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7,516 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: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 2.1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 2.1
Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 for Itanium
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
Red Hat has issued an update for dump. This fixes a weakness, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The weakness is caused due to the use of flock() when locking the "/etc/dumpdates" file and can be exploited to prevent dump from running by obtaining a lock on the file before dump.
Successful exploitation requires the user to have read access to the file.
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