Bug 152561

Summary:	CAN-2005-0977 tmpfs truncate bug
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:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0	CC:	davem, jbaron, pfrields, riel, security-response-team, steved
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Description Mark J. Cox 2005-03-30 12:40:14 UTC

[PATCH] tmpfs caused truncate BUG
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset@420551fbRlv9-QG6Gw9Lw_bKVfPSsg

This may have security consequences under some situations allowing a local DoS,
but the impact and ability to exploit this is currently unknown.

Split from bug 149589

http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/2/5/111

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-04-19 18:52:29 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-2005-366.html