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Linux Kernel Denial of Service and Privilege Escalation
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA28696
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Release Date:
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2008-02-01
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Last Update:
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2009-01-14
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Popularity:
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10,383 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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DoS
Privilege escalation
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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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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
A security issue and a vulnerability have been reported in the Linux Kernel, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or potentially gain escalated privileges.
1) The security is caused due to a NULL pointer dereference in arch/powerpc/platforms/chrp/setup.c, which can be exploited to crash a vulnerable system.
Successful exploitation requires certain PowerPC hardware.
2) The vulnerability is caused due to the "sys_remap_file_pages()" function in mm/fremap.c not properly accounting for certain variables. This can be exploited to e.g. crash the system or potentially gain escalated privileges.
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