Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : linux-source-2.6.10, linux-source-2.6.8.1 vulnerabilities (USN-187-1)
Low Nessus Plugin ID 20599
Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
Description
A Denial of Service vulnerability was detected in the stack segment fault handler. A local attacker could exploit this by causing stack fault exceptions under special circumstances (scheduling), which lead to a kernel crash. (CAN-2005-1767)
Vasiliy Averin discovered a Denial of Service vulnerability in the 'tiocgdev' ioctl call and in the 'routing_ioctl' function. By calling fget() and fput() in special ways, a local attacker could exploit this to destroy file descriptor structures and crash the kernel.
(CAN-2005-3044).
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Solution
Update the affected packages.