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Linux Kernel Local Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA23664
Release Date: 2007-01-11
Last Update: 2007-11-19
Popularity: 10,188 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: DoS
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Linux Kernel 2.4.x
Linux Kernel 2.6.x

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

1) An error exists within the handling of locking semaphores in "mincore()". This can be exploited to cause a deadlock by using the function on unmapped pages.

2) An error exists within the "zlib_inflate()" function when processing certain data streams. This can be exploited to corrupt memory by e.g. mounting a specially crafted cramfs image and performing a read operation on the mounted file system.

3) The Kernel fails to handle corrupted data structures in the Ext2 file system correctly. This can be exploited to crash the system by mounting and reading a specially crafted file system image.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 2.6.19.2. Vulnerability #2 is also reported in versions prior to 2.4.35.4.

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