CVE-2008-4307 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-4307
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Description: Race condition in the do_setlk function in fs/nfs/file.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.26 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors resulting in an interrupted RPC call that leads to a stray FL_POSIX lock, related to improper handling of a race between fcntl and close in the EINTR case.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-751-1 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA34917 Secunia Advisory: SA34962 Secunia Advisory: SA34981 Secunia Advisory: SA35011 Secunia Advisory: SA35015 Secunia Advisory: SA37471 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0451.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0473.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0459.html MLIST http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/13/1 DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1787 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1794 CONFIRM http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.html http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git;a=commit;h=c4d7c402b788b73dc24f1e54a57f89d3dc5eb7bc http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.26 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/507985/100/0/threaded

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