Denial Of Service (DoS)

kernel is vulnerable to denial of service DoS. The vulnerability exists as the absence of sanity-checks was found in the hypervisor block backend driver, when running 32-bit paravirtualized guests on a 64-bit host. The number of blocks to be processed per one request from guest to host, or...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.18-53.1.19.0.1.el5 - NET Add entropy support to e1000 and bnx2 John Sobecki ORA 6045759 - NET Fix msi issue with kexec/kdump Michael Chan ORA 6219364 - MM Fix allocpagesnode static nid' race made kernel crash Joe Jin ORA 6187457 - splice Fix bad unlockpage in error case Jens Axboe ORA 6263574...

CVE-2007-5498

The Xen hypervisor block backend driver for Linux kernel 2.6.18, when running on a 64-bit host with a 32-bit paravirtualized guest, allows local privileged users in the guest OS to cause a denial of service host OS crash via a request that specifies a large number of blocks...

CVE-2007-5498

The CVE-2007-5498 issue affects the Xen hypervisor block backend driver for Linux kernel 2.6.18. When running on a 64-bit host with a 32-bit paravirtualized guest, a local privileged user in the guest can trigger a denial of service (host OS crash) by issuing a request that specifies a very large...

CVE-2007-5498

The Xen hypervisor block backend driver for Linux kernel 2.6.18, when running on a 64-bit host with a 32-bit paravirtualized guest, allows local privileged users in the guest OS to cause a denial of service host OS crash via a request that specifies a large number of blocks...