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Fedora update for systemtap
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA37167
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Release Date:
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2009-10-27
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Popularity:
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514 views
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Critical:
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Not critical
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Impact:
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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: | Fedora 10
Fedora 11
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
Fedora has acknowledged some vulnerabilities in systemtap, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
1) A stack overflow exists when handling a large amount of parameters passed to formatted printing functions, which can be exploited to cause a kernel crash.
2) An error exists within the handling of certain DWARF expressions. This can be exploited to cause a kernel crash by providing specially crafted DWARF information.
3) An error exists within the handling of unwind tables, which can be exploited to cause an infinite loop.
Note: Successful exploitation requires that the "--unprivileged" mode is used, which is not enabled by default.
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