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oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7980
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or privilege escalation. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: Eugene Teo reported a local DoS issue in the ext2 and ext3 filesystems. Local users who h ... oval:org.secpod.oval:def:400061 The openSUSE 10.3 kernel was updated to fix various security problems and bugs. Following security bugs were fixed: CVE-2008-5079: net/atm/svc.c in the ATM subsystem allowed local users to cause a denial of service by making two calls to svc_listen for the same socket, and then reading a /proc/net/ ... oval:org.secpod.oval:def:700450 Hugo Dias discovered that the ATM subsystem did not correctly manage socket counts. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a system hang, leading to a denial of service. It was discovered that the libertas wireless driver did not correctly handle beacon and probe responses. A physically near- ... |