Bug 616992

Summary:	CVE-2010-2537 kernel: btrfs: check for append only file in the clone ioctl
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Petr Matousek <pmatouse>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	arozansk, cebbert, davej, eteo, kmcmartin, lwang, pmatouse
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2010-08-02 03:57:52 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:	617002
Bug Blocks:

Description Petr Matousek 2010-07-21 21:20:50 UTC

Description of problem:
The existing [btrfs] code would have allowed you to overwrite append-only files. Not an expected behaviour.

Upstream commit:
http://git.kernel.org/linus/2ebc3464781ad24474abcbd2274e6254689853b5

Reference:
https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page

The kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 has support for Btrfs by default.

Comment 1 Petr Matousek 2010-07-21 21:21:37 UTC

Statement:

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, 5 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG as they did not include support for Btrfs, a new copy on write filesystem.

Comment 3 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2010-08-02 03:50:07 UTC

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Dan Rosenberg for responsibly reporting this issue.

Comment 4 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2010-08-02 03:57:52 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 616998 ***