USN-659-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the direct-IO subsystem did not correctly validate certain structures. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a system crash, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2007-6716 It was discovered that the disabling of the ZEROPAGE optimization could lead to large memory...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1636-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

[SECURITY] [DSA 1636-1] New Linux 2.6.24 packages fix several vulnerabilities

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[SECURITY] [DSA 1636-1] New Linux 2.6.24 packages fix several vulnerabilities

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DSA-1636-1 linux-2.6.24 - several vulnerabilities

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CVE-2008-3534

CVE-2008-3534 affects the Linux kernel tmpfs implementation (shmem.c: shmem_delete_inode). A local attacker could crash the system by a specific sequence of file create/remove/overwrite operations, linked to allocation of “useless pages” and improper maintenance of i_blocks. Public advisories con...