A vulnerability has been identified in Linux Kernel, which could be exploited by local attackers to obtain elevated privileges. This flaw is due to an integer overflow error in the "get_fdb_entries()" [net/bridge/br_ioctl.c] function, which could be exploited by malicious users to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Eugene Teo and a1rsupp1y
ChangeLog
2006-11-30 : Initial release
2006-12-10 : Updated References
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