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Bug 162903

Summary: CAN-2002-1914 dump denial of service
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: dumpAssignee: Jindrich Novy <jnovy>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
Severity: low Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 2.1CC: mmalik, pknirsch
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OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: impact=low,public=20020717,source=cve
Fixed In Version: RHSA-2005-583 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Patch taken from upstream CVS none

Description Josh Bressers 2005-07-11 15:44:42 UTC 
dump 0.4 b10 through b29 allows local users to cause a denial of service
(execution prevention) by using flock() to lock the /etc/dumpdates file.

More information regarding this issue is here:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-07/0204.html
Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-07-11 15:46:47 UTC 
Created attachment 116609 [details]
Patch taken from upstream CVS
Comment 2 Jindrich Novy 2005-07-12 08:19:07 UTC 
Josh, thanks for the patch, it's now applied and errata is comming up.
Comment 3 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-08-03 14:12:20 UTC 
An advisory 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-2005-583.html