oss-security - CVE request: kernel: flat: fix uninitialized ptr with shared libs

Follow @Openwall on Twitter for new release announcements and other news

[<prev] [next>] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <4A83681B.7050201@kernel.sg>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:10:51 +0800
From: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@...nel.sg>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: CVE request: kernel: flat: fix uninitialized ptr with shared libs

The new credentials code broke load_flat_shared_library() as it now uses
an uninitialised cred pointer, leading to a NULL pointer dereference.
This can be triggered by running a shared flat binary.

kernel/cred.c was introduced in v2.6.29-rc1 IIRC.

Upstream commit:
http://git.kernel.org/linus/3440625d78711bee41a84cf29c3d8c579b522666

References:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/22/91
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.hardware.blackfin.kernel.devel/1905

Thanks, Eugene

Please check out the Open Source Software Security Wiki, which is counterpart to this mailing list.

Confused about mailing lists and their use? Read about mailing lists on Wikipedia and check out these guidelines on proper formatting of your messages.