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CVE-2008-5079

Published: Dec 9, 2008

Modified: Aug 7, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

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affected
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References

20081209 rPSA-2008-0332-1 kernel
mailing-list
x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
RHSA-2009:0225
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11288
vdb-entry
signature
x_refsource_OVAL
33706
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
SUSE-SA:2009:010
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
33641
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
RHSA-2009:0053
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
33756
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
FEDORA-2008-11618
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_FEDORA
33348
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
32913
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
33623
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
MDVSA-2009:032
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_MANDRIVA
32676
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
34981
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
4694
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SREASON
33083
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
USN-714-1
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
DSA-1787
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_DEBIAN
USN-715-1
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
33854
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
1021360
vdb-entry
x_refsource_SECTRACK
33704
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
SUSE-SA:2009:008
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
SUSE-SA:2009:004
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE

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