Bug#322339: CAN-2004-2302: Race condition allows DoS through large offsets in sysfs files

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

Package: kernel-source-2.6.8
Severity: important
Tags: security patch

CAN-2004-2302 describes a kernel DoS through a race condition, that can be triggered
by overly long sysfs offsets. Please see 
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset%404186a4deVoR88JjTwMa3ZnIp-_YJsA
for description and a patch. 2.4 doesn't seem to use sysfs and it should already be
fixed in 2.6.12.

Cheers,
        Moritz

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