Bug 716842 (CVE-2011-2494)
Summary: | CVE-2011-2494 kernel: taskstats io infoleak | ||
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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: | low | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | low | ||
Version: | unspecified | CC: | anton, arozansk, bhu, davej, dhoward, fhrbata, jkacur, kernel-mgr, kmcmartin, lgoncalv, lwang, plougher, pmatouse, rt-maint, sforsber, tcallawa, vgoyal, williams |
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: | 2012-05-04 07:06:16 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: | 716845, 716846, 716847, 716848, 716849, 761355 | ||
Bug Blocks: | 716823 |
Description
Eugene Teo (Security Response)
2011-06-27 09:04:27 UTC
Statement: This issue did not affect the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 as it did not provide support for the Taskstats interface. This has been addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG via https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1479.html, https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1465.html, and https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0010.html. (In reply to comment #0) [...] > [2/2] taskstats: restrict access to user (CVE-2011-2494) > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/916042/ http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/5366 (In reply to comment #4) > (In reply to comment #0) > [...] > > [2/2] taskstats: restrict access to user (CVE-2011-2494) > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/916042/ > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/5366 Upstream patch: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1a51410abe7d0ee4b1d112780f46df87d3621043 This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2011:1465 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1465.html This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Via RHSA-2011:1479 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1479.html This issue has been addressed in following products: MRG for RHEL-6 v.2 Via RHSA-2012:0010 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0010.html |