Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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TITLE:
OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) "/proc/net/sdpstats"
Denial of Service Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA45861
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RELEASE DATE:
2011-09-07
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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in OpenFabrics Enterprise
Distribution, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to
cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the implementation
of the /proc/net/sdpstats proc file, which can be exploited to cause a
crash by reading /proc/net/sdpstats.
The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 1.5.3.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.5.3.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Disclosed in a GIT commit. Possibly independently discovered by a
SUSE customer.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/06/3
http://git.openfabrics.org/git?p=ofed_1_5/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=04bb801a31825d1559c4670253e1bea1291a1af8
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