oss-security - CVE-2010-4161 kernel: rhel5 backport of 93821778 caused deadlock

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Message-ID: <4CEA0D83.6020104@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:28:19 +0800
From: Eugene Teo <eugene@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com,
        "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: CVE-2010-4161 kernel: rhel5 backport of 93821778 caused deadlock

This can be triggered using Dan's reproducer for CVE-2010-4158. The 
issue was introduced in 93821778def10ec1e69aa3ac10adee975dad4ff3 and was 
fixed in fda9ef5d679b07c9d9097aaf6ef7f069d794a8f9. This is assigned with 
CVE-2010-4161. This was mentioned in 
http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg146404.html.

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=652534#c0 for more info.

Thanks, Eugene

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