Denial Of Service (DoS)

kernel is vulnerable to denial of service. A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's encodeshareaccess implementation. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to trigger a denial of service by creating a regular file on an NFSv4 Network File System version 4 file system via mknod...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120110)

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues : - A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's XFS file system implementation handled links with overly long path names. A local, unprivileged...

CVE-2011-4324

The encodeshareaccess function in fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.29 allows local users to cause a denial of service BUG and system crash by using the mknod system call with a pathname on an NFSv4 filesystem...

CVE-2011-4324

The encodeshareaccess function in fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.29 allows local users to cause a denial of service BUG and system crash by using the mknod system call with a pathname on an NFSv4 filesystem...

CentOS 5 : kernel (CESA-2012:0007)

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs, and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores,...

CVE-2011-4324

The encodeshareaccess function in fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.29 allows local users to cause a denial of service BUG and system crash by using the mknod system call with a pathname on an NFSv4 filesystem...

kernel security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2012:0007 Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs, and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Commo...