kernel kernel-source

2007-02-21

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Author: voroskoi
Vulnerable: 2.6.17-6siwenna6
Unaffected: 2.6.17-6siwenna7

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

Bug Tracker URL: http://bugs.frugalware.org/task/1712

CVEs:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0006