Veracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:24348Denial Of Service (DoS)
4.9 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
kernel is vulnerable to denial of service. The fix for Red Hat Bugzilla bug 484590 as provided in RHSA-2009:1243 introduced a regression. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service.
References
docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/5.5_Technical_Notes/kernel.html#RHSA-2011-0004
secunia.com/advisories/42789
secunia.com/advisories/46397
www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0004.html
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/514845
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded
www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg146404.html
www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0024
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011:0004
access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651698
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=652534
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64497
Related
4.9 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C