Bug 247728 (CVE-2007-3513)

Summary: CVE-2007-3513 Locally triggerable memory consumption in usblcd
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Marcel Holtmann <holtmann>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: dhoward, kernel-mgr, kreilly, kseifried
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Description Marcel Holtmann 2007-07-11 03:49:12 UTC
usblcd currently has no way to limit memory consumption by fast writers. This is
a security problem, as it allows users with write access to this device to drive
the system into oom despite resource limits.

Comment 5 Kurt Seifried 2011-09-28 17:07:35 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Linux Enterprise 5

Via RHSA-2007:0940 available at https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0940.html