Bug 159916 - CAN-2005-1762 x86_64 crash (ptrace-canonical)
Summary: CAN-2005-1762 x86_64 crash (ptrace-canonical)
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 154451
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 4.0
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: Peter Staubach
QA Contact: Brian Brock
URL:
Whiteboard: source=vendorsec,public=20050517
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-06-09 09:29 UTC by Mark J. Cox
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2005-07-15 15:56:06 UTC
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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 ***
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