Users of Linux 2.6 kernel please be advised of a stack overflow vulnerability that has been identified.
To view this vulnerability, possible remedies, and others please check out the Security Advisories at Critical Watch (http://criticalwatch.com/support/security-advisories.aspx)
Amplify’d from www.criticalwatch.com
MDVSA-2010:214: [MDVSA-2010:214] kernel stack overflow
Problem Description:
A vulnerability was discovered and corrected in the Linux 2.6 kernel:
A vulnerability in Linux kernel caused by insecure allocation of user
space memory when translating system call inputs to 64-bit. A stack
pointer underflow can occur when using the compat_alloc_user_space
method with an arbitrary length input. (CVE-2010-3081)Read more at www.criticalwatch.com
See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/ej0a
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