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14 Nov 2008 Sun Alert 245846 A Security Vulnerability in the Solaris i915 DRM Driver May Cause a Kernel Panic
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Product: OpenSolaris

An insufficient resource management security vulnerability in the Solaris i915 Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel driver (i915(7d)) may allow an unprivileged local user to overwrite arbitrary portions of kernel memory, which may cause a kernel panic. This is a type of denial of service (DoS).

This issue is also referenced in the following document:

CVE-2008-3831 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3831

State: Resolved

First released: 14-Nov-2008

Sun Alert Link: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-245846-1

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