Weekly Vulnerabilities Reports > September 29 to October 5, 2008

Overview

1 new vulnerabilities reported during this period, including 0 critical vulnerabilities and 0 high severity vulnerabilities. This weekly summary report vulnerabilities in 3 products from 3 vendors including Debian, Linux, and Redhat. Vulnerabilities are notably categorized as and "Improper Locking".

  • Debian has the most reported vulnerabilities, with 1 reported vulnerabilities.

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Vulnerability Details

The following table list reported vulnerabilities for the period covered by this report:

0 Critical Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS

0 High Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS

1 Medium Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2008-09-29 CVE-2008-4302 Linux
Debian
Redhat
Improper Locking vulnerability in multiple products

fs/splice.c in the splice subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.22.2 does not properly handle a failure of the add_to_page_cache_lru function, and subsequently attempts to unlock a page that was not locked, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel BUG and system crash), as demonstrated by the fio I/O tool.

5.5

0 Low Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS