Bug 473259 (CVE-2008-5300)
| Summary: | CVE-2008-5300 kernel: fix soft lockups/OOM issues with unix socket garbage collector | ||||||||||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Eugene Teo (Security Response) <eteo> | ||||||||
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> | ||||||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |||||||||
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||||||
| Priority: | high | ||||||||||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | anton, bhu, chilek, dhoward, jpirko, jrusnack, kseifried, lgoncalv, lwang, mjc, vgoyal, williams | ||||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security | ||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2011-09-30 21:07:35 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: | 470201, 473263, 473264, 473265, 473266, 473267, 473268, 473269, 473270 | ||||||||||
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Description
Eugene Teo (Security Response)
2008-11-27 12:55:25 UTC
Patch for this bug: http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122771908731133&w=2 Created attachment 324874 [details] Proposed patch for real-time kernel This patch is to be applied on top of the CVE-2008-5029 fixes. I have tested it with unix.c in a tight loop, and I did not encounter any soft lock-ups or oom-killer problems. Kindly review/test. Upstream patch: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5f23b734963ec7eaa3ebcd9050da0c9b7d143dd3 Created attachment 325484 [details]
Upstream patch
kernel-2.6.27.9-159.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kernel-2.6.27.9-159.fc10 kernel-2.6.27.9-73.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kernel-2.6.27.9-73.fc9 kernel-2.6.27.9-159.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. kernel-2.6.27.9-73.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. kernel-2.6.26.8-57.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. Note that for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, the patch for CVE-2008-5029 included the fix for this issue. I've updated RHSA-2009:0225 to show that CVE-2008-5300 was addressed. Created attachment 339407 [details]
Upstream kernel 2.4 patch
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Via RHSA-2009:1550 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1550.html |