Bug 159916

Summary: CAN-2005-1762 x86_64 crash (ptrace-canonical)
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component: kernelAssignee: Peter Staubach <staubach>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version: 4.0CC: davej, jbaron
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Description Mark J. Cox 2005-06-09 09:29:43 UTC
The following upstream patch checks if ptrace RIP is canonical; without this a
user can cause a crash.

http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=d1099e8a18960693c04507bdd7b9403db70bfd97

Comment 1 Peter Staubach 2005-07-15 15:56:06 UTC
This appears to be a duplicate of BZ, 154451.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 154451 ***