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List:       oss-security
Subject:    [oss-security] CVE-2008-4307 kernel: local denial of service in locks_remove_flock
From:       "Eugene Teo" <eugeneteo () kernel ! sg>
Date:       2009-01-13 11:23:59
Message-ID: 28fa9c5e0901130323gfe2af4et508bda2eb95ab263 () mail ! gmail ! com
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There is a fcntl/close race in the Linux kernel that can be abused by
a local, unprivileged user to cause a denial of service.

The issue was fixed in upstream commit c4d7c402b788b73dc24f1e54a57f89d3dc5eb7bc.

More details can be found at:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-4307

Thanks, Eugene
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