CVE-2008-5079 Information

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.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00006.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00010.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00003.html http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122841256115780&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/32913 http://secunia.com/advisories/33083 http://secunia.com/advisories/33348 http://secunia.com/advisories/33623 http://secunia.com/advisories/33641 http://secunia.com/advisories/33704 http://secunia.com/advisories/33706 http://secunia.com/advisories/33756 http://secunia.com/advisories/33854 http://secunia.com/advisories/34981 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4694 http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0332 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1787 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:032 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0053.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0225.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498943/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499044/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32676 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021360 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-715-1 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2915 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11288 https://usn.ubuntu.com/714-1/ https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg01358.html