CVE-2008-1514 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-1514
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Description: arch/s390/kernel/ptrace.c in Linux kernel 2.6.9, and other versions before 2.6.27-rc6, on s390 platforms allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via the user-area-padding test from the ptrace testsuite in 31-bit mode, which triggers an invalid dereference.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41501 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA31826 Secunia Advisory: SA32799 Secunia Advisory: SA32237 REDHAT http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0972.html MISC http://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/utrace/tests DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1655 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1653 CONFIRM http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=3d6e48f43340343d97839eadb1ab7b6a3ea98797 http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.27-rc6 http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.26.6 BID 31177

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