CVE-2010-1087 Information

Description

The nfs_wait_on_request function in fs/nfs/pagelist.c in Linux kernel 2.6.x through 2.6.33-rc5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (Oops) via unknown vectors related to truncating a file and an operation that is not interruptible.

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=9f557cd8073104b39528794d44e129331ded649f http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-07/msg00006.html http://secunia.com/advisories/39830 http://secunia.com/advisories/40645 http://secunia.com/advisories/43315 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2053 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/03/03/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/516397/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39569 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0003.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1857 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=567184 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10442