Bug 143379 - CAN-2004-1234 kernel denial of service vulnerability and exploit (ipf)
Summary: CAN-2004-1234 kernel denial of service vulnerability and exploit (ipf)
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 2.1
Hardware: ia64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jim Paradis
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-12-20 02:52 UTC by Jim Paradis
Modified: 2013-08-06 01:10 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2005-01-21 15:41:20 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2005:017 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel security update 2005-01-21 05:00:00 UTC

Description Jim Paradis 2004-12-20 02:52:38 UTC 
A malformed elf executable can a system to freeze or crash.  See Bug
142965 for details.  This bug exists in RHEL2.1 as well as RHEL3, and
is being tracked here.
Comment 1 Jim Paradis 2004-12-21 18:39:24 UTC 
A fix for this problem has just been committed to the RHEL2.1 E7
patch pool (in kernel version 2.4.18-e.53)
Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2005-01-21 15:41:20 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-2005-017.html
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