CVE-2004-1016 - Morning Sand Lizard

Description

The scm_send function in the scm layer for Linux kernel 2.4.x up to 2.4.28 and 2.6.x up to 2.6.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) via crafted auxiliary messages that are passed to the sendmsg function which causes a deadlock condition.

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11921 http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0019-scm.txt https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2336 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-689.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-016.html http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1070 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1067 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1069 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-017.html http://secunia.com/advisories/20162 http://secunia.com/advisories/20163 http://secunia.com/advisories/20202 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1082 http://secunia.com/advisories/20338 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_44_kernel.html http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:022 https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-38-1/ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18483 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11816