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kernel: dell_rbu local oops

Published Jan 28, 2009

Description

drivers/firmware/dell_rbu.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27.13, and 2.6.28.x before 2.6.28.2, allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a read system call that specifies zero bytes from the (1) image_type or (2) packet_size file in /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (2)

References (36)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Jan 28, 2009
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Jan 28, 2009
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Jan 17, 2009