Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in the Linux Kernel, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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TITLE:
Linux Kernel IPv6 Flow Label Denial of Service
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA22665
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/22665/
CRITICAL:
Not critical
IMPACT:
DoS
WHERE:
Local system
OPERATING SYSTEM:
Linux Kernel 2.6.x
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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in the Linux Kernel, 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 handling of
seqfiles for "/proc/net/ip6_flowlabel", which can be exploited to
cause kernel lockups and crashes via specially crafted flow labels.
SOLUTION:
Fixed in the GIT repository.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Disclosed in a GIT commit.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=bcd620757d3a4ae78ef0ca41adb5d9e400ed92b6
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