Debian Security Advisory DSA 047-1 (various kernel packages)

The remote host is missing an update to various kernel packages announced via advisory DSA 047-1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb0471.nasl 6616 2017-07-07 12:10:49Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 047-1 Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2007 E-Soft Inc...

CVE-2001-1397

CVE-2001-1397 affects the System V shared memory implementation in the Linux kernel before version 2.2.19. The issue allows attackers to modify recently freed memory within SYSV shared memory. Public sources consistently describe this as a kernel memory handling flaw rather than a user-space vuln...