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Linux Kernel 2.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA37296
Release Date: 2009-11-09
Popularity: 846 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Exposure of sensitive information
Privilege escalation
DoS
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Linux Kernel 2.4.x

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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in the Linux Kernel, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose potentially sensitive information, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), and gain escalated privileges, and by malicious people to cause a DoS.

1) A vulnerability is caused due to a memory leak when handling certain AppleTalk-IP datagrams.

For more information:
SA36707

2) NULL pointer dereference errors exist within certain r128 IOCTL handlers when the CCE state is not properly initialised.

For more information:
SA36707

3) A locking error exists within the "pipe_rdwr_open()", "pipe_write_open()", and "pipe_read_open()" functions in fs/pipe.c.

For more information:
SA37233

4) The "tcf_fill_node()" function in net/sched/cls_api.c does not properly clear the "tcm__pad2" structure member before returning it to userspace, which can be exploited to disclose kernel memory.

For more information:
SA37086

5) A deadlock within the "unix_stream_connect()" function in net/unix/af_unix.c can be exploited to cause a DoS by performing certain socket operations.

For more information:
SA37086

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