Bug 126404

Summary:	CAN-2004-0427 do_fork DoS (ipf)
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1	Reporter:	Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Jason Baron <jbaron>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	2.1	CC:	knoel, riel
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Hardware:	ia64
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Description Mark J. Cox 2004-06-21 09:42:51 UTC

A potential local DoS that was fixed in previous RHEL3 and FC1 updates:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108139073506983

Not verified if this issue affects EL2.1 AS/AW ia64, it does not
affect EL2.1 AS/ES/WS ia32.

Comment 1 John Flanagan 2004-08-18 14:41:53 UTC

An errata has been issued which should help the problem 
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being 
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, 
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report 
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-327.html