Description
The sysfs_readdir function in the Linux kernel 2.6, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.5 and other distributions, allows users to cause a denial of service (kernel OOPS) by dereferencing a null pointer to an inode in a dentry.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
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n/aaffected
References
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018289 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26643 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28643 ↗
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11233 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26651 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26289 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25838 ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-510-1 ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-509-1 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24631 ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1428 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27912 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25771 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28033 ↗
- http://osvdb.org/37115 ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-12/msg00001.html ↗
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-287.htm ↗
- http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242558 ↗
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0089.html ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-508-1 ↗
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0488.html ↗