A vulnerability has been identified in Linux Kernel, which could be exploited by local attackers to bypass security restrictions, cause a denial of service or potentially gain elevated privileges. This issue is caused due to insufficient range checks in certain fault handlers within the "drivers/char/drm/drm_vm.c", "drivers/char/mspec.c", "fs/ncpfs/mmap.c", "kernel/relay.c", "mm/mmap.c", "sound/oss/via82cxxx_audio.c", "sound/usb/usx2y/usX2Yhwdep.c" and "sound/usb/usx2y/usx2yhwdeppcm.c" files, which could be exploited by local attackers to potentially read or write arbitrary kernel memory.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by the vendor.
ChangeLog
2008-02-07 : Initial release
2008-02-18 : Updated Solution
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