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

The vulnerabilities are caused due to various errors when handling string conversions, which can be exploited to e.g. cause buffer overflows.

This is related to vulnerability #1 in:
SA34644

Solution
Update to version 2.6.30.

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Reported by the vendor.

Changelog
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Original Advisory
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.29.4
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.30-rc5

http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=124226897529946&w=2

http://git.kernel.org/linus/afe48c31ea5c74eaac58621ce1c85ae8187c4383
http://git.kernel.org/linus/18295796a30cada84e933d805072dc2248d54f98
http://git.kernel.org/linus/9e39b0ae8af46c83b85dae7ff5251911a80fce5a
http://git.kernel.org/linus/d185cda7712fd1d9e349174639d76eadc66679be
http://git.kernel.org/linus/20418acd6874792359b42c12d159f42f17593f34
http://git.kernel.org/linus/f58841666bc22e827ca0dcef7b71c7bc2758ce82
http://git.kernel.org/linus/460b96960d1946914e50316ffeefe7b41dddce91
http://git.kernel.org/linus/59140797c5817363087b0ffb46e6bb81a11fe0dc
http://git.kernel.org/linus/cc20c031bb067eb3280a1c4b5c42295093e24863
http://git.kernel.org/linus/066ce6899484d9026acd6ba3a8dbbedb33d7ae1b
http://git.kernel.org/linus/69f801fcaa03be83d58c564f00913b7c172808e4
http://git.kernel.org/linus/7fabf0c9479fef9fdb9528a5fbdb1cb744a744a4
http://git.kernel.org/linus/66345f50f070ae7412a28543ee197cb5eff73598
http://git.kernel.org/linus/d37dc42ab6f040b8f0f2962ab219c5b2accf748d
http://git.kernel.org/linus/7b0c8fcff47a885743125dd843db64af41af5a61
http://git.kernel.org/linus/968460ebd8006d55661dec0fb86712b40d71c413
http://git.kernel.org/linus/341060273232a2df0d1a7fa53abc661fcf22747c
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d8e2f53ac99f4ce7d63807a84f98d1b80df598cf

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