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CVE-2008-5079

Description

net/atm/svc.c in the ATM subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.6.27.8 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel infinite loop) by making two calls to svc_listen for the same socket, and then reading a /proc/net/atm/*vc file, related to corruption of the vcc table.


Affected Package


OS OS Version Package Name Package Version
ubuntu 08.04 linux 2.6.24-23.48
ubuntu 08.10 linux 2.6.27-11.27
ubuntu upstream linux 2.6.27.8
ubuntu upstream linux-source-2.6.15 any
ubuntu 07.10 linux-source-2.6.22 2.6.22-16.61
ubuntu upstream linux-source-2.6.22 any

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