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  • Vulnerable: 2.6.24-3
  • Unaffected: 2.6.24-4kalgan1

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.

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