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CVE-2008-5079

CVE-2008-5079

EPSS 1.1%
net/atm/svc.c in the ATM subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.6.27.8 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel infinite loop) by making two calls to svc_listen for the same socket, and then reading a /proc/net/atm/*vc file, related to corruption of the vcc table.
Affected products
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public PoCs found — 1
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References
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00006.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00010.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00003.htmlhttp://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122841256115780&w=2http://secunia.com/advisories/32913http://secunia.com/advisories/33083http://secunia.com/advisories/33348http://secunia.com/advisories/33623http://secunia.com/advisories/33641http://secunia.com/advisories/33704http://secunia.com/advisories/33706http://secunia.com/advisories/33756