oss-security - Re: 2.6.25.10 security fixes, please assign CVE id

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Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:13:04 +0800
From: Eugene Teo <eteo@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: coley@...re.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.25.10 security fixes, please assign CVE id

Marcus Meissner wrote:
> http://lwn.net/Articles/288473/
> 
>> Stable kernel 2.6.25.10
>> Posted Jul 3, 2008 15:34 UTC (Thu) by PaXTeam (subscriber, #24616) [Link] 
[...]
>> 2.
>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git;a=commitdiff;h=1e9a615bfce7996ea4d815d45d364b47ac6a74e8
>> is an even better one, it allows one to overflow the task struct refcount (a 32 bit atomic_t
>> on the affected amd64) and cause its subsequent freeing with dangling references to it all
>> over the place (including 'current' of the ptraced task itself). corresponding exploit avenues
>> abound.
> 
> I don't know if this one has a CVE yet.

I'm cc'ing Steve just to make sure that this gets a CVE id.

Thanks,
Eugene
-- 
Eugene Teo / Red Hat Security Response Team

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