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 "release_one_tty()" Denial of Service
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA39490
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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 a memory leak within the
"release_one_tty()" function in drivers/char/tty_io.c, which can be
exploited to e.g. cause a DoS due to memory exhaustion.
SOLUTION:
Fixed in the GIT repository.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Tetsuo Handa
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2010/3/27/4552426
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=6da8d866d0d39e9509ff826660f6a86a6757c966
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