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Tracker / CVE-2010-0623

CVE-2010-0623

Medium 4.9

The futex_lock_pi function in kernel/futex.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.33-rc7 does not properly manage a certain reference count, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) via vectors involving an unmount of an ext3 filesystem.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · … → 2.6.33
opensuse opensuse

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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