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Bug 125171

Summary:	CAN-2004-0535 e1000 kernel memory leak (ia64)
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1	Reporter:	Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	2.1	CC:	jbaron, peterm, riel
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Hardware:	ia64
OS:	Linux
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Description Mark J. Cox 2004-06-03 12:41:16 UTC

According to
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/testing/patch-2.4.27.log a
recent kernel fix was applied "e1000: fix probable security hole".

This issue in fact is a minor information leak via the e1000 driver
that can reveal 24 bytes of kernel memory to users (if e1000 driver is
loaded)

No CVE name yet available
See Bug #125168 for a patch (will need to be backported)

Comment 1 Mark J. Cox 2004-06-04 08:01:25 UTC

CAN-2004-0535

Comment 2 John Flanagan 2004-08-18 14:41:49 UTC

An errata has been issued which should help the problem 
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being 
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, 
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report 
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-327.html