Denial Of Service (DoS)

kernel-rt is vulnerable to denial of service. An off-by-two error was found in the setselection function of the Linux kernel. This could allow a local, unprivileged user to cause a denial of service when making a selection of characters in a UTF-8 console. Note: physical console access is require...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security and bug fix update

Updated kernel-rt packages that fix several security issues and a bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1.1.2. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel-rt packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux...

CVE-2009-1046: Undefined Security Weakness

The console selection feature in the Linux kernel 2.6.28 before 2.6.28.4, 2.6.25, and possibly earlier versions, when the UTF-8 console is used, allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption by selecting a small number of 3-byte UTF-8 characters, which...