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Linux Kernel Denial of Service Vulnerabilities Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA22279  
Release Date: 2006-10-06

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

OS:Linux Kernel 2.6.x


CVE reference:CVE-2006-3741 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2006-4997 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in the Linux Kernel, which can be exploited by malicious, local users and malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

1) The "sys_perfmon()" function on Itanium (IA64) systems does not correctly handle file descriptor reference counts, which can be exploited to cause a DoS by consuming all available file descriptors.

2) The "clip_mkip()" function in net/atm/clip.c may dereference a previously freed pointer when processing received data, which can be exploited to cause a kernel panic.

Solution:
Update to version 2.6.18.

Provided and/or discovered by:
1) Reported by the vendor.
2) ADLab, Venustech info Ltd CHINA.

Original Advisory:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/ke...44d00762703e1b6146fce12ce2684885f8bf6
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/ke...6109a9dfd9327fdbe630fc819e1b7450986b2



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