Bug 168313
| Summary: | CVE-2005-2708 user code panics kernel in exec.c | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 | Reporter: | Don Howard <dhoward> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Don Howard <dhoward> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 2.1 | CC: | anderson, mjc, security-response-team |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | ia64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | source=bz,reported=20050628,public=20050628,impact=important | ||
| Fixed In Version: | RHSA-2006-0190 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2006-02-01 17:46:00 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 143573 | ||
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Comment 3
Mark J. Cox
2005-09-20 08:21:42 UTC
See Bug #161925 for details of this issue "The search_binary_handler function in exec.c in Linux 2.4 kernel on 64-bit x86 architectures does not check a return code for a particular function call when virtual memory is low, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic), as demonstrated by running a process using the bash ulimit -v command." 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-2006-0190.html |