Bug 289151 (CVE-2006-4538)

Summary: CVE-2006-4538 kernel: Local DoS with corrupted ELF
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Mark J. Cox 2007-09-13 12:01:42 UTC
Already fixed for RHEL4, but not for RHEL3/2.1-ia64.  See bz#205335 for
EL4 reproducer.

From Kirill Korotaev:

When running on IA64 or SPARC platforms, local users can cause a denial of
service via a malformed ELF file and then triggered by cross-region mappings.

http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/4/116

Comment 3 Kurt Seifried 2011-09-28 23:12:27 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Linux Enterprise 2.1
  Red Hat Linux Enterprise 3
  
Via RHSA-2007:1049 available at https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-1049.html and RHSA-2008:0787 available at https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0787.html