CVE-2008-5079

CVE Details

Release Date:	2008-12-09
Impact:	Important	What is this?

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.

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	4.9
Vector String:	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Local
Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (kernel)	ELSA-2009-0225	2009-01-27
Oracle Linux version 5 (ocfs2-2.6.18-128.el5)	ELSA-2009-0225	2009-01-27
Oracle Linux version 5 (oracleasm-2.6.18-128.el5)	ELSA-2009-0225	2009-01-27