Bug 749259

Summary:	kernel: sysctl: restrict write access to dmesg_restrict [fedora-all]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Petr Matousek <pmatouse>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	15	CC:	cebbert, davej, gansalmon, itamar, jlieskov, 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:	2011-10-26 15:43:51 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Blocks:	749243

Description Petr Matousek 2011-10-26 15:15:44 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.

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Only one tracking bug has been filed; please ensure that it is only closed
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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 Josh Boyer 2011-10-26 15:43:51 UTC

Introduced by:
eaf06b241b091357e72b76863ba16e89610d31bd which is in 2.6.37

Fixed by:
bfdc0b497faa82a0ba2f9dddcf109231dd519fcc which is in 2.6.39

F14 was never impacted, F15-rawhide already contain the fix.