Red Hat Enterprise Linux NFSv4 local DoS Vulnerability

Release date: 2011-11-24
Updated on:

Affected Systems:
RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 server
OpenVZ Project OpenVZ 028stab095. 1
Unaffected system:
OpenVZ Project OpenVZ 028stab098. 1
Description:
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Bugtraq id: 50798
CVE (CAN) ID: CVE-2011-4324

Linux Kernel is the Kernel used by open source Linux.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux has a local denial of service vulnerability. Local attackers can exploit this vulnerability to cause kernel crash.

<* Source: Red Hat

Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi? CVE-2011-4324
Http://git.kernel.org /? P = linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git; a = commitdiff; h = dc0b027dfadfcb8a5504f7d8052754bf8d501ab9
*>

Suggestion:
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Vendor patch:

OpenVZ Project
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The vendor has released a patch to fix this security problem. Please download it from the vendor's homepage:

Http://wiki.openvz.org/Main_Page