Ubuntu 4.10 : linux-source-2.6.8.1 vulnerabilities (USN-110-1)

Alexander Nyberg discovered an integer overflow in the sysfswritefile function. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the kernel or possibly even execute arbitrary code with root privileges by writing to an user-writable file in /sys under certain low-memory conditions. However, there are...

CVE-2004-2302: Undefined Security Weakness

Race condition in the sysfsreadfile and sysfswritefile functions in Linux kernel before 2.6.10 allows local users to read kernel memory and cause a denial of service crash via large offsets in sysfs files...

USN-110-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Alexander Nyberg discovered an integer overflow in the sysfswritefile function. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the kernel or possibly even execute arbitrary code with root privileges by writing to an user-writable file in /sys under certain low-memory conditions. However, there are...

Linux kernel multiple vulnerabilities

sysfswritefile integer overflow, futex functions DoS, ext3 and jfs race conditions...