Bug 396751 (CVE-2007-6694)

Summary: CVE-2007-6694 /proc/cpuinfo DoS on some ppc machines
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: kreilly, kseifried, williams
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OS: Linux   
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Bug Depends On: 396771, 396781, 396791, 396801, 396811, 396821, 396831    
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Patch from the reporter. none

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2007-11-23 13:46:00 UTC 
Description of problem:

This patch does fix possible NULL pointer dereference
inside of strncmp() if of_get_property() failed. 

This issue went public via: 

http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/d3573f2b305c1e6e?hl=en#d13e0770eadc48c5
Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2007-11-23 13:46:48 UTC 
This one has not CVE number assigned yet, will update this one as soon as
this gets one.
Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2007-11-23 13:49:34 UTC 
Created attachment 267541 [details]
Patch from the reporter.

Attaching patch from the reporter.