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HistoryJul 12, 2006 - 12:00 a.m.

[Full-disclosure] Re: rPSA-2006-0122-1 kernel

2006-07-1200:00:00
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Justin M. Forbes wrote:

>Description:
> Previous versions of the kernel package are vulnerable to two denial
> of service attacks. The first allows any local user to fill up file
> systems by causing core dumps to write to directories to which they
> do not have write access permissions. The second applies only to
>
>
I really wonder why in the recent past there is a tendence to declare
such things as "denial of service" etc - while they are perfect root
backdoors / vulns

B000M you are in one minut^K^K^Ke later…

Maybe this is just to hide the overall bad quality of the 2.6 kernel
code? just guessing

Anyway CVE-2006-2451 is trivially exploitable so I don't attach any
exploit code since it is obvious…

Paul Starzetz


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