Justin M. Forbes wrote:
Description:
Previous versions of the kernel package are vulnerable to two denial
of service attacks. The first allows any local user to fill up file
systems by causing core dumps to write to directories to which they
do not have write access permissions. The second applies only to
I really wonder why in the recent past there is a tendence to declare
such things as "denial of service" etc - while they are perfect root
backdoors / vulns
*B000M* you are in one minut^K^K^Ke later...
Maybe this is just to hide the overall bad quality of the 2.6 kernel
code? *just guessing*
Anyway CVE-2006-2451 is trivially exploitable so I don't attach any
exploit code since it is obvious...
Paul Starzetz
