Bug 152410
| Summary: | CAN-2005-0749 load_elf_library possible DoS | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | Mark J. Cox <mjc> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Dave Jones <davej> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 4.0 | CC: | jbaron, pfrields, riel |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | impact=important,public=20050318,source=vendorsec,reported=20050318 | ||
| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2005-04-19 18:52:28 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Oops, I reassigned the wrong bug. Attempting to revert (but state is now ASSIGNED). 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-2005-366.html |
A flaw when freeing a pointer in load_elf_library was discovered. A local user could potentially use this flaw to cause a denial of service (crash). See discussion at: http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0503.2/0603.html Fixed upstream (note important 2nd fix for 2.4) fixed=2.6 (20050325 http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset@4244bffczprEXYXBhd4oTqo8WoMTGQ fixed=2.4 (20050325 http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4/cset@4244930dPN44h62CZtM0P-qXoOI-7A fixed=2.4 (20050326 http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4/cset@424581efkFnFr5llhjjaiNnTmuS88Q