A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel, an off by one in the drivers/target/loopback/tcm_loop.c tcm_loop_make_naa_tpg() function could result in at least memory corruption. Reference: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=12f09ccb4612734a53e47ed5302e0479c10a50f8 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/12f09ccb4612734a53e47ed5302e0479c10a50f8 https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1735625]
This was fixed for Fedora in 2011.
No shipping versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux contain this flaw.
This flaw is rated as important, it is basic memory corruption that may lead to additional paths of privilege escalation.