CVE-2008-0109

CVE-2008-0109 affects Word in Microsoft Office 2000 SP3, XP SP3, Office 2003 SP2, and Word Viewer 2003. The root cause is a memory corruption in parsing certain fields in the File Information Block (FIB) of Word documents, triggered by crafted content, enabling remote code execution. Impact is fu...

Important: kernel security and bug fix update

kernel-2.4.21-53.EL - Fix ipv4 treason uncloaked message Anton Arapov 249237 - Fix ipv4 fib-sem-out-of-bounds checking Don Howard 250429 CVE-2007-2172 - Reset current-pdeathsignal on SUID binary execution Peter Zijlstra 251117 CVE-2007-3848 - Fix local DoS with corrupted elf on ia64 Don Howard...

fib_semantics.c out of bounds access vulnerability

A typo in Linux kernel 2.6 before 2.6.21-rc6 and 2.4 before 2.4.35 causes RTAMAX to be used as an array size instead of RTNMAX, which leads to an "out of bound access" by the 1 dnfibprops dnfib.c, DECNet and 2 fibprops fibsemantics.c, IPv4 functions...

infinite recursion in netlink

The nlfiblookup function in net/ipv4/fibfrontend.c in Linux Kernel before 2.6.20.8 allows attackers to cause a denial of service kernel panic via NETLINKFIBLOOKUP replies, which trigger infinite recursion and a stack overflow...