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Bug 159916

Summary:	CAN-2005-1762 x86_64 crash (ptrace-canonical)
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Peter Staubach <staubach>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0	CC:	davej, jbaron
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Description Mark J. Cox 2005-06-09 09:29:43 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 1 Peter Staubach 2005-07-15 15:56:06 UTC

This appears to be a duplicate of BZ, 154451.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 154451 ***