Race condition in the ia32 compatibility code for the execve system call in Linux kernel 2.4 before 2.4.31 and 2.6 before 2.6.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a concurrent thread that increments a pointer count after the nargs function has counted the pointers, but before the count is copied from user space to kernel space, which leads to a buffer overflow.
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suse | — | Upgrade kernel-64k-pagesizeUpgrade kernel-s390Upgrade kernel-sourceUpgrade kernel-sn2Upgrade kernel-smpUpgrade kernel-iseries64Upgrade kernel-defaultUpgrade kernel-pmac64Upgrade kernel-debugUpgrade kernel-s390xUpgrade kernel-symsUpgrade kernel-pseries64 | Feb 17, 2015 | Jul 11, 2005 |
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