CVE-2004-2302 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2004-2302
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Description: Race condition in the sysfs_read_file and sysfs_write_file functions in Linux kernel before 2.6.10 allows local users to read kernel memory and cause a denial of service (crash) via large offsets in sysfs files.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_44_kernel.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA17826 Secunia Advisory: SA18056 MANDRIVA http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:219 MANDRAKE http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:218 http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:219 DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-922 CONFIRM http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.10-rc1/2.6.10-rc1-mm1/broken-out/fix-race-in-sysfs_read_file-and-sysfs_write_file.patch http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset%404186a4deVoR88JjTwMa3ZnIp-_YJsA BID 13091

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