Bug 152412
| Summary: | CAN-2005-0749 load_elf_library possible DoS | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 | Reporter: | Mark J. Cox <mjc> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Don Howard <dhoward> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 2.1 | CC: | jbaron, riel |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | impact=important,public=20050318,source=vendorsec,reported=20050318 | ||
| Fixed In Version: | RHSA-2005-529 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2005-09-29 18:07:25 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: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 143573 | ||
This issue is corrected in e.64. 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-2005-529.html |
A flaw when freeing a pointer in load_elf_library was discovered. A local user could potentially use this flaw to cause a denial of service (crash). See discussion at: http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0503.2/0603.html Fixed upstream (note important 2nd fix for 2.4) fixed=2.6 (20050325 http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset@4244bffczprEXYXBhd4oTqo8WoMTGQ fixed=2.4 (20050325 http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4/cset@4244930dPN44h62CZtM0P-qXoOI-7A fixed=2.4 (20050326 http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4/cset@424581efkFnFr5llhjjaiNnTmuS88Q