A flaw was found in the method that the linux kernel handles userspace tuning of the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) system settings. The incorrect handling allowed a trusted user to set multiple RDS sysctls for RDS with specially formatted data. Reading from these files also returned data from other sysctl settings that would be exposed via the same permissions to this user. This bug provides little risk to users as the values that can be modified are exposed via proc sysctls with the same permissions. https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=db27ebb111e9f69efece08e4cb6a34ff980f8896
Statement: This issue affects the versions of the kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 . Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1199365]