Linux kernel vulnerability

[David Hummel]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Jerry Feldman<gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> There is a serious kernel bug, but fixes should be coming down the pike
> very shortly. While this is a serious bug, it is apparently only
> exploitable from the inside.
>
> This is what Thomas Charon sent to glhlug yesterday.
> http://blog.cr0.org/2009/08/linux-null-pointer-dereference-due-to.html
>
> Here is the Red Hat Bugzilla entry:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=516949#c10
> It's been fixed, but has not yet been released.
>
> kernel-2.6.29.6-217.2.7.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
> http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kernel-2.6.29.6-217.2.7.fc11
>
> Ubuntu
> http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-bugs-nLRlyDuq1AZFpShjVBNYrg@public.gmane.org/msg1630833.html

Reported yesterday:

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2009-2692