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Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.51.0903021747271.26325@faron.mitre.org>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 17:49:55 -0500 (EST)
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
To: Eugene Teo <eugene@...hat.com>
cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com,
"Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request: kernel: memory disclosure in
SO_BSDCOMPAT gsopt
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Eugene Teo wrote:
> Eugene Teo wrote:
> > [...]
> > The fix for CVE-2009-0676 (upstream commit df0bca04) is incomplete. Note
> > that the same problem of leaking kernel memory will reappear if someone
> > on some architecture uses struct timeval with some internal padding (for
> > example tv_sec 64-bit and tv_usec 32-bit) --- then, you are going to
> > leak the padded bytes to userspace.
Is this going to require a separate CVE identifier? If a new minor
version of the kernel wasn't released yet, then I'd consider the fix to be
little more than a couple patch-discussion messages in a single Bugzilla
entry.
- Steve
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