Bug 162903 – CAN-2002-1914 dump denial of service

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Bug 162903 - CAN-2002-1914 dump denial of service

Summary:	CAN-2002-1914 dump denial of service

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	dump (Show other bugs)
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Version:	2.1
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity low
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Assigned To:	Jindrich Novy
QA Contact:	Ben Levenson
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Whiteboard:	impact=low,public=20020717,source=cve
Keywords:	Security

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Reported:	2005-07-11 11:44 EDT by Josh Bressers
Modified:	2013-07-02 19:08 EDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	RHSA-2005-583
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2005-08-03 10:12:19 EDT
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Patch taken from upstream CVS (1.69 KB, patch) 2005-07-11 11:46 EDT, Josh Bressers	no flags	Details \| Diff
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Description Josh Bressers 2005-07-11 11:44:42 EDT

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 11:46:47 EDT

Created attachment 116609 [details]
Patch taken from upstream CVS

Comment 2 Jindrich Novy 2005-07-12 04:19:07 EDT

Josh, thanks for the patch, it's now applied and errata is comming up.

Comment 3 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-08-03 10:12:20 EDT

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

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