CVE-2008-5079 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-5079
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Description: net/atm/svc.c in the ATM subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.6.27.8 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel infinite loop) by making two calls to svc_listen for the same socket, and then reading a /proc/net/atm/*vc file, related to corruption of the vcc table.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-715-1 http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-714-1 SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00010.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00003.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00006.html ST 1021360 SREASON http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4694 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA33348 Secunia Advisory: SA33854 Secunia Advisory: SA33706 Secunia Advisory: SA33756 Secunia Advisory: SA33704 Secunia Advisory: SA33641 Secunia Advisory: SA32913 Secunia Advisory: SA33623 Secunia Advisory: SA33083 Secunia Advisory: SA34981 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0225.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0053.html MLIST http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122841256115780&w=2 MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:032 FEDORA DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1787 CONFIRM http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0332 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/499044/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/498943/100/0/threaded BID 32676

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