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Linux Kernel Multiple Security Issues
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA25895
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Release Date:
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2007-07-02
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Last Update:
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2008-10-03
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Popularity:
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10,965 views
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Critical:
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Not critical
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Impact:
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Security Bypass
Privilege escalation
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: | Linux Kernel 2.6.x
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Description:
Some security issues have been reported in the Linux Kernel, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain security restrictions, to gain escalated privileges, or to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
1) The USBLCD driver does not limit the memory consumption during writes to the device. This can be exploited to cause an out-of-memory condition by writing a large amount of data to an affected device.
Successful exploitation requires write access to a device using the driver.
2) An error in the implementation of the "sys_setrlimit()" system call can be exploited to bypass CPU time limits by setting RLIMIT_CPU to 0.
3) An error in the "ftruncate()" functionality can be exploited to potentially gain escalated group privileges by creating a file in a setgid directory.
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