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Bug 509629

Summary:	kernel: fd leak if pipe() is called with an invalid address [mrg-1]
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise MRG	Reporter:	Eugene Teo (Security Response) <eteo>
Component:	realtime-kernel	Assignee:	Red Hat Real Time Maintenance <rt-maint>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	David Sommerseth <davids>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	1.1	CC:	amwang, bhu, jcm, lgoncalv, ovasik, williams
Target Milestone:	1.1.5
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Clone Of:	509625	Environment:
Last Closed:	2009-07-14 19:11:46 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	509625
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Description Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2009-07-04 08:11:14 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #509625 +++

Description of problem:
fd leak if pipe() is called with an invalid address.

Though -EFAULT is returned, the file descriptors opened by pipe() call are left open.

Reference:
http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/33640/

Comment 2 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2009-07-04 08:20:56 UTC

http://www.chineselinuxuniversity.net/patches/43722.shtml

Comment 3 Luis Claudio R. Goncalves 2009-07-06 15:12:13 UTC

Applied to kernel -124

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2009-07-14 19:11:46 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 therefore 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-2009-1157.html