kernel

2007-07-12

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Author: voroskoi
Vulnerable: 2.6.20-5terminus6
Unaffected: 2.6.20-5terminus7

A vulnerability has been reported in the Linux Kernel, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a Denial of Service (DoS). The vulnerability is caused due to a NULL pointer dereference within the function “sysfs_readdir()” when handling pointers to inodes. This can be exploited to crash a vulnerable system.

Bug Tracker URL: http://bugs.frugalware.org/task/2211

CVEs:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-3104