vnunet: Linux Flaw Could Lead to DoS Attacks

“A security flaw has been found in Linux kernel version 2.6.x
that could allow malicious local users to cause a denial of service
attack, according to an advisory from security firm Secunia.

“The vulnerability is caused by an out-of-bounds memory error in
the ‘fill_write_buffer()’ function in ‘sysfs/file.c’…”

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