Bug 159915 - CVE-2005-1762 x86_64 crash (ptrace-canonical)
Summary: CVE-2005-1762 x86_64 crash (ptrace-canonical)
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 3.0
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jim Paradis
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks: 156320
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Reported: 2005-06-09 09:29 UTC by Mark J. Cox
Modified: 2013-08-06 01:14 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: RHSA-2005-663
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2005-09-28 15:18:26 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2005:663 0 qe-ready SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Updated kernel packages available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 6 2005-09-28 04:00:00 UTC

Description Mark J. Cox 2005-06-09 09:29:01 UTC 
The following upstream patch checks if ptrace RIP is canonical; without this a
user can cause a crash.

http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=d1099e8a18960693c04507bdd7b9403db70bfd97
Comment 2 Ernie Petrides 2005-06-10 20:37:36 UTC 
Mark, this bug and bug 159917 are mixed up.  You reversed the CVE names.

Changing this summary to "CAN-2005-0756 x86_64 crash (ptrace-canonical)".

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 155978 ***
Comment 3 Ernie Petrides 2005-06-15 01:05:35 UTC 
A fix for this problem has just been committed to the RHEL3 U6
patch pool this evening (in kernel version 2.4.21-32.8.EL).
Comment 6 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-09-28 15:18:26 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-2005-663.html
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