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  • Author: voroskoi
  • Vulnerable: 2.6.20-5terminus3
  • Unaffected: 2.6.20-5terminus4

Some vulnerabilities have been reported in the Linux Kernel, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or disclose potentially sensitive information.

  1. A memory leak exists when releasing PPPoE sockets after they are connected, but before the “PPPIOCGCHAN” ioctl is called. This can be exploited to cause a DoS due to memory exhaustion.
  2. An error within the “_udp_lib_get_port()” function in net/ipv4/udp.c can be exploited to intercept traffic by binding to a port using a local address if a wildcard bind exists with a local address to that port.

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