SUSE CVE-2008-3534

The shmemdeleteinode function in mm/shmem.c in the tmpfs implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.26.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service system crash via a certain sequence of file create, remove, and overwrite operations, as demonstrated by the insserv program, related to...

Linux kernel ext[234] directory corruption denial of service

The error-reporting functionality in 1 fs/ext2/dir.c, 2 fs/ext3/dir.c, and possibly 3 fs/ext4/dir.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.26.5 does not limit the number of printk console messages that report directory corruption, which allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service temporar...