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TITLE:
Linux Kernel 2.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA37296

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/37296/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in the Linux Kernel, which
can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose potentially
sensitive information, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), and gain
escalated privileges, and by malicious people to cause a DoS.

1) A vulnerability is caused due to a memory leak when handling
certain AppleTalk-IP datagrams.

For more information:
SA36707

2) NULL pointer dereference errors exist within certain r128 IOCTL
handlers when the CCE state is not properly initialised.

For more information:
SA36707

3) A locking error exists within the "pipe_rdwr_open()",
"pipe_write_open()", and "pipe_read_open()" functions in fs/pipe.c.

For more information:
SA37233

4) The "tcf_fill_node()" function in net/sched/cls_api.c does not
properly clear the "tcm__pad2" structure member before returning it
to userspace, which can be exploited to disclose kernel memory.

For more information:
SA37086

5) A deadlock within the "unix_stream_connect()" function in
net/unix/af_unix.c can be exploited to cause a DoS by performing
certain socket operations.

For more information:
SA37086

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.4.37.7.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ChangeLog-2.4.37.7

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA36707:
http://secunia.com/advisories/36707/

SA37086:
http://secunia.com/advisories/37086/

SA37233:
http://secunia.com/advisories/37233/

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