Bug 151902 - CAN-2005-0767 drm race in radeon
Summary: CAN-2005-0767 drm race in radeon
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: Dave Jones
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks: 147461
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-03-23 12:56 UTC by Mark J. Cox
Modified: 2015-01-04 22:17 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2005-04-19 18:52:26 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2005:366 0 high SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel security update 2005-04-19 04:00:00 UTC

Description Mark J. Cox 2005-03-23 12:56:32 UTC 
Split from bug #149693

7. drm: fix race condition in radeon driver
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset@42088d17CO1mOAfgW4R46WRTm9gkwA

A race condition was discovered affecting the Radeon DRI driver in the Linux 2.6
kernel.  A local user who has DRI privileges on a Radeon graphics card may be
able to use this flaw to gain root privileges.

Fixed in 2.6.11 upstream
Fixed for 2.6.9-6.28 RHEL4
Comment 1 Jay Turner 2005-04-16 11:00:47 UTC 
Fix included in RHSA-2005:366.
Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2005-04-19 18:52:26 UTC 
An advisory 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-2005-366.html
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