Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in IBM AIX and IBM Virtual I/O Server, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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TITLE:
IBM AIX and Virtual I/O Server "dupmsg" Denial of Service
Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA50003
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RELEASE DATE:
2012-07-27
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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in IBM AIX and IBM Virtual I/O
Server, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS
(Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused to an error when exporting a "dupmsg"
kernel extension call to user space and can be exploited to cause a
system crash.
Please see the vendor's advisory for a list of affected versions.
SOLUTION:
Apply Interim Fixes.
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PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Jakub Wartak.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
IBM (IV22693, IV22694, IV22695, IV22696, IV22697):
http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/syscall_advisory.asc
OTHER REFERENCES:
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