USN-715-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Hugo Dias discovered that the ATM subsystem did not correctly manage socket counts. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a system hang, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2008-5079 It was discovered that the inotify subsystem contained watch removal race conditions. A local attacker coul...

CVE-2008-5395

The pariscshowstack function in arch/parisc/kernel/traps.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28-rc7 on PA-RISC allows local users to cause a denial of service system crash via vectors associated with an attempt to unwind a stack that contains userspace addresses...

CVE-2008-5395

The pariscshowstack function in arch/parisc/kernel/traps.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28-rc7 on PA-RISC allows local users to cause a denial of service system crash via vectors associated with an attempt to unwind a stack that contains userspace addresses...

CVE-2008-5395

The pariscshowstack function in arch/parisc/kernel/traps.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28-rc7 on PA-RISC allows local users to cause a denial of service system crash via vectors associated with an attempt to unwind a stack that contains userspace addresses...