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Secunia Advisory: SA25895
Release Date: 2007-07-02
Last Update: 2008-10-03
Popularity: 10,968 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Privilege escalation
DoS
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Linux Kernel 2.6.x

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Advisory Content (Page 2 of 3)[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]

Solution:
Update to version 2.6.22.

Provided and/or discovered by:
1) Reported by the vendor.
2) Reported by David Peer in a Zsh bug report.
3) Reported by David Watson in a kernel bug report.

Changelog:
2007-07-04: Added CVE reference.
2007-07-09: Updated "Solution" section.
2008-05-02: Added vulnerability #2 to the advisory. Added CVE reference and updated credits and "Original Advisory" section.
2008-09-24: Added vulnerability #3 to the advisory. Updated credits and the "Original Advisory" section.
2008-10-03: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
1) http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.22-rc7
2) http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2007/msg00200.html
3) http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8420

Change Page:
[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]



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