Bug 152561 - CAN-2005-0977 tmpfs truncate bug
Summary: CAN-2005-0977 tmpfs truncate bug
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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
URL:
Whiteboard: impact=unknown,public=20050205,report...
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Blocks: 147461
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-03-30 12:40 UTC by Mark J. Cox
Modified: 2015-01-04 22:18 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2005-04-19 18:52:29 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 2005-03-30 12:40:14 UTC 
[PATCH] tmpfs caused truncate BUG
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset@420551fbRlv9-QG6Gw9Lw_bKVfPSsg

This may have security consequences under some situations allowing a local DoS,
but the impact and ability to exploit this is currently unknown.

Split from bug 149589

http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/2/5/111
Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-04-19 18:52:29 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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