Bug 729809

Summary:	CVE-2011-2905 kernel: perf tools: may parse user-controlled configuration file [fedora-all]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Vincent Danen <vdanen>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	15	CC:	aquini, gansalmon, itamar, jonathan, jwboyer, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security, SecurityTracking
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2011-08-17 21:10:34 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Blocks:	729808

Description Vincent Danen 2011-08-10 21:47:34 UTC

This is an automatically created tracking bug!  It was created to ensure
that one or more security vulnerabilities are fixed in affected Fedora
versions.

For comments that are specific to the vulnerability please use bugs filed
against "Security Response" product referenced in the "Blocks" field.

For more information see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/TrackingBugs

When creating a Bodhi update request, please include the bug IDs of the
respective parent bugs filed against the "Security Response" product.
Please mention CVE ids in the RPM changelog when available.

Bodhi update submission link:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/new/?type_=security&bugs=729808

Please note: this issue affects multiple supported versions of Fedora.
Only one tracking bug has been filed; please only close it when all
affected versions are fixed.


Reproducers, if any, will remain confidential and never be made public, unless done so by the security team.

[bug automatically created by: add-tracking-bugs]

Comment 1 Chuck Ebbert 2011-08-16 03:48:31 UTC

In F14: 2.6.35.14-95, F15: 2.6.40.2-0, not in F16.

Comment 2 Josh Boyer 2011-08-16 11:03:42 UTC

F16 is being moved to 3.1-rc2 today, which already has the fix for this.