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TITLE:
Linux Kernel Video Output Status Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA38863

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/38863/

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 while reading the status
of video output devices on certain ThinkPad platforms. This can be
exploited to cause a kernel crash by reading data from
/proc/acpi/ibm/video.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in 2.6.34-rc1.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by Jidanni in a Debian bug report.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=565790

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.34-rc1
http://git.kernel.org/linus/b525c06cdbd8a3963f0173ccd23f9147d4c384b5

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