Bug 306911 (CVE-2006-4145)

Summary: CVE-2006-4145 UDF truncating issue
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: dhoward, esandeen, kseifried, lwang, mjc, rwheeler, security-response-team
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Bug Depends On: 202765, 202766, 202767, 202768, 247931    
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Description Mark J. Cox 2007-09-26 13:18:59 UTC 
Report from LKML:

UDF has bugs on truncating. When doing:

    dd if=/dev/zero of=aaa bs=1024k count=2 seek=3000

Linux will hang and die.

The current upstream patch needs further work:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=115736441315952&w=2
Comment 1 Mark J. Cox 2007-09-26 13:22:36 UTC 
Note already fixed in 2.6.18 and didn't affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
Comment 3 Joshua Giles 2008-06-25 14:07:32 UTC 
Patch Verifed
Comment 17 Kurt Seifried 2011-09-29 16:48:35 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Linux Enterprise 4
  
Via RHSA-2008:0665 available at https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0665.html