Bug 749259 - kernel: sysctl: restrict write access to dmesg_restrict [fedora-all]
Summary: kernel: sysctl: restrict write access to dmesg_restrict [fedora-all]
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 15
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: CVE-2011-4080
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Reported: 2011-10-26 15:15 UTC by Petr Matousek
Modified: 2011-10-28 03:55 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2011-10-26 15:43:51 UTC
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Description Petr Matousek 2011-10-26 15:15:44 UTC
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Comment 1 Josh Boyer 2011-10-26 15:43:51 UTC
Introduced by:
eaf06b241b091357e72b76863ba16e89610d31bd which is in 2.6.37

Fixed by:
bfdc0b497faa82a0ba2f9dddcf109231dd519fcc which is in 2.6.39

F14 was never impacted, F15-rawhide already contain the fix.


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