kernel

2007-02-26

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Author: voroskoi
Vulnerable: 2.6.17-6siwenna7
Unaffected: 2.6.17-6siwenna8

A vulnerability has been reported in the Linux Kernel, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). The vulnerability is caused due to an invalid freeing of a pointer when handling NFSACL 2 “ACCESS” requests, which can be exploited to crash the kernel.

Bug Tracker URL: http://bugs.frugalware.org/task/1740

CVEs:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0772