Description
drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_core.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.35 does not initialize a certain port data structure, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via read operations on an fc_host statistics file.
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.securityfocus.com/bid/45262 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/09/15 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded ↗
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0017.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 ↗
- http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg43772.html ↗
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.35 ↗
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42884 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/08/3 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661182 ↗
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7873ca4e4401f0ecd8868bf1543113467e6bae61 ↗