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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:55:05 +0800
From: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@...nel.sg>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: kernel: thinkpad-acpi: lock down video output state access
Just a heads up. Not requesting a CVE name for this since it only affect
certain thinkpads/xorg.
"Given the right combination of ThinkPad and X.org, just reading the
video output control state is enough to hard-crash X.org.
Until the day I somehow find out a model or BIOS cut date to not provide
this feature to ThinkPads that can do video switching through X RandR,
change permissions so that only processes with CAP_SYS_ADMIN can access
any sort of video output control state.
This bug could be considered a local DoS I suppose, as it allows any
non-privledged local user to cause some versions of X.org to hard-crash
some ThinkPads."
Upstream commit:
http://git.kernel.org/linus/b525c06cdbd8a3963f0173ccd23f9147d4c384b5
Thanks, Eugene
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