Bug 459467
Summary: | kernel: binfmt_misc.c: avoid potential kernel stack overflow [rhel-4.7.z] | ||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | Eugene Teo (Security Response) <eteo> |
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Vitaly Mayatskikh <vmayatsk> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Martin Jenner <mjenner> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 4.7.z | CC: | dhoward, dmair, lwang, vmayatsk |
Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | ZStream |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2009-02-12 17:13:14 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Bug Depends On: | 459462, 459466 | ||
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Description
Eugene Teo (Security Response)
2008-08-19 07:34:05 UTC
Steps to Reproduce: 1. as root user, run echo ":text:E::txt::/cat.txt:" > /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register; touch /cat.txt; chmod +x /cat.txt 2) as normal user, run /cat.txt (In reply to comment #2) > (In reply to comment #1) > > Proposed upstream patch: > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=3a2e7f47d71e1df86acc1dda6826890b6546a4e1 > > Note that there is a regression. See http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/18/544. The > patch is not in upstream yet AFAIK. This is ff9bc512f198eb47204f55b24c6fe3d36ed89592 |