Bug 698999 (CVE-2011-1747) - CVE-2011-1747 kernel: agp: possible kernel mem exhaustion via AGPIOC_RESERVE and AGPIOC_ALLOCATE ioctls
Summary: CVE-2011-1747 kernel: agp: possible kernel mem exhaustion via AGPIOC_RESERVE ...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2011-1747
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 699000 699001 699002 699003 699004 761351
Blocks: 823440
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Reported: 2011-04-22 15:21 UTC by Petr Matousek
Modified: 2023-05-11 17:26 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-05-23 14:30:16 UTC
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Description Petr Matousek 2011-04-22 15:21:43 UTC
There is a problem in agp code - kernel memory exhaustion (AGPIOC_RESERVE and
AGPIOC_ALLOCATE ioctls).  It is not checked whether requested pid is a pid of
the caller (no check in agpioc_reserve_wrap()). Each allocation is limited to
16KB, though, there is no per-process limit. This might lead to OOM situation,
which is not even solved in case of the caller death by OOM killer - the memory
is allocated for another (faked) process.

Reference:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/14/294

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Red Hat would like to thank Vasiliy Kulikov of Openwall for reporting this issue.

Comment 3 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2011-04-25 02:36:38 UTC
This issue was mentioned in https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/14/294 and linux-2.6:b522f02184b413955f3bc952e3776ce41edc6355 for the patch fixing CVE-2011-1746 because the patch tries to fix a similar problem - OOM.

CVE-2011-1747 is not fixed yet.

Comment 15 Petr Matousek 2012-05-23 14:33:00 UTC
Statement:

Red Hat Security Response team does not consider this bug to be security relevant one due to the privileges (CAP_SYS_RAWIO) required to exploit this issue.


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