Synopsis
kernel security update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Important
Topic
Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues are now availablefor Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4This update has been rated as having important security impact by the RedHat Security Response Team[Updated 9 August 2005 ...
Alexander Nyberg discovered an integer overflow in the
sysfs_write_file() function A local attacker could exploit this to
crash the kernel or possibly even execute arbitrary code with root
privileges by writing to an user-writable file in /sys under certain
low-memory conditions However, there are very few cases where a
user-writeable sysfs file ...
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