Bugzilla (bugzilla.redhat.com) will be under maintenance for infrastructure upgrades and will not be available on July 31st between 12:30 AM - 05:30 AM UTC. We appreciate your understanding and patience. You can follow status.redhat.com for details.
Bug 162903 - CAN-2002-1914 dump denial of service
Summary: CAN-2002-1914 dump denial of service
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1
Classification: Red Hat
Component: dump
Version: 2.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jindrich Novy
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
URL:
Whiteboard: impact=low,public=20020717,source=cve
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-07-11 15:44 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2013-07-02 23:08 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: RHSA-2005-583
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2005-08-03 14:12:19 UTC
Target Upstream Version:

Attachments (Terms of Use)
Patch taken from upstream CVS (1.69 KB, patch)
2005-07-11 15:46 UTC, Josh Bressers 		no flags Details | Diff
Add an attachment (proposed patch, testcase, etc.)


Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2005:583 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Low: dump security update 2005-08-03 04:00:00 UTC

Description Josh Bressers 2005-07-11 15:44:42 UTC 
dump 0.4 b10 through b29 allows local users to cause a denial of service
(execution prevention) by using flock() to lock the /etc/dumpdates file.

More information regarding this issue is here:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-07/0204.html
Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-07-11 15:46:47 UTC 
Created attachment 116609 [details]
Patch taken from upstream CVS
Comment 2 Jindrich Novy 2005-07-12 08:19:07 UTC 
Josh, thanks for the patch, it's now applied and errata is comming up.
Comment 3 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-08-03 14:12:20 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-2005-583.html
Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.