CVE-2008-5395 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-5395
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Description: The parisc_show_stack function in arch/parisc/kernel/traps.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28-rc7 on PA-RISC allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via vectors associated with an attempt to unwind a stack that contains userspace addresses.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/47075 UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-715-1 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA32933 Secunia Advisory: SA33756 Secunia Advisory: SA34981 Secunia Advisory: SA35011 MLIST http://marc.info/?l=linux-parisc&m=121736357203624&w=2 DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1787 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1794 CONFIRM http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.28-rc7 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git;a=commit;h=7a3f5134a8f5bd7fa38b5645eef05e8a4eb62951 BID 32636

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