CVE-2007-2998 Information

Description

The Pascal run-time library (PAS$RTL.EXE) before 20070418 on OpenVMS for Integrity Servers 8.3 and PAS$RTL.EXE before 20070419 on OpenVMS Alpha 8.3 does not properly restore PC and PSL values which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via certain Pascal code.

Reference

http://mail.openvms.org:8100/Lists/alerts/Message/503.html http://mail.openvms.org:8100/Lists/alerts/Message/504.html http://osvdb.org/36800 http://secunia.com/advisories/25486 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24252 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2001 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34635