CVE-2008-4302 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-4302
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Description: fs/splice.c in the splice subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.22.2 does not properly handle a failure of the add_to_page_cache_lru function, and subsequently attempts to unlock a page that was not locked, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel BUG and system crash), as demonstrated by the fio I/O tool.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/45191 SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00001.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA32485 Secunia Advisory: SA32759 Secunia Advisory: SA32237 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0957.html MLIST http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/16/10 http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/20/168 MISC http://www.juniper.net/security/auto/vulnerabilities/vuln31201.html DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1653 CONFIRM http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.22.2 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.26.y.git;a=commit;h=6a860c979b35469e4d77da781a96bdb2ca05ae64 BID 31201

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