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http://secunia.com/blog/71/



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TITLE:
Linux Kernel connector Denial of Service Security Issue

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA38317

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/38317/

DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in the Linux Kernel, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service).

The security issue is caused due to an error within the notification
code in drivers/connector/connector.c, which can be exploited to
trigger an out-of-memory condition.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the GIT repository.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Sebastian Krahmer, SUSE

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=f98bfbd78c37c5946cc53089da32a5f741efdeb7

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