Bug 144389

Summary:	CAN-2004-1056 insufficient locking checks in DRM code
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Don Howard <dhoward>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	2.1	CC:	peterm, riel, tburke, xgl-maint
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	impact=moderate,public=20041109
Fixed In Version:	RHSA-2005-551	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Josh Bressers 2005-01-06 18:46:30 UTC

*** This bug has been split off bug 138534 ***

------- Original comment by Josh Bressers (Security Response Team) on 2004.11.09
15:00 -------

Stefan Dirsch reported to the freedesktop.org bugzilla an issue with
permissions within the DRM code.

See this url for more information, including a patch.
https://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1803

This issue should also affect RHEL2.1

Comment 1 Jason Baron 2005-03-31 19:35:39 UTC

hmmm, this isn't in upstream 2.4, i wonder why.

Comment 2 Don Howard 2005-07-08 07:54:23 UTC

A patch addressing this issue has been committed to the RHEL2.1 tree. (kernel
version 2.4.9-e64.1)

Comment 5 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-08-25 13:16:55 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-551.html