| Package: | kernel |
| Date: | 2008-05-05 |
| Vulnerable version: | 2.6.24-3 |
| Unaffected version: | 2.6.24-4kalgan1 |
| Bug tracker entry: | http://bugs.frugalware.org/task/3050 |
| CVEs: | http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1375 |
| Description: | A vulnerability has been reported in the Linux kernel, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or to potentially gain escalated privileges. A race condition error exists in the dnotify subsystem between calls to "fcntl()" and "close()". This can be exploited to cause a system crash or potentially gain root privileges. |
