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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-1615

NOTE: The text on this page is written by CVE MITRE and reflects neither the opinions of Secunia or the results of our research. All data on this page is written and maintained by CVE MITRE.

Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2008-1615

Description:
Linux kernel 2.6.18, and possibly other versions, when running on AMD64 architectures, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain ptrace calls.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/42278

SUSE
  http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00002.html
  http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-06/msg00006.html
  http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00000.html

ST
  1020047

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA30252
  Secunia Advisory: SA30294
  Secunia Advisory: SA30368
  Secunia Advisory: SA30818
  Secunia Advisory: SA30890
  Secunia Advisory: SA30962

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0275.html
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0237.html

MISC

FEDORA

DEBIAN
  http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1588

BID
  29086


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