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Linux Deep Symbolic Link Denial of Service Vulnerability

A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in several versions of the Linux kernel.

The problem occurs when a user with local access creates a long chain of symbolically linked files. When the kernel dereferences the symbolic links, the process scheduler is blocked, effecively locking the system until the dereferencing is complete.







 

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