The purpose of this advisory is to provide a workaround for this problem. This patch has been successfully tested by a number of people on the bugtraq list.
Any user can crash the system.
The problem actually occurs with any 'special' file on the tmpfs filesystem. Contact your vendor for a patch. System Administrators are encouraged to contact us for any other information they may require about the problems described in this advisory. We welcome reports about which platforms this flaw does or does not exist on.