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Message-ID: <4D6744F5.3020103@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:58:13 +0800 From: Eugene Teo <eugene@...hat.com> To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com CC: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@...lice.com> Subject: Re: CVE request: libcgroup: Failure to verify netlink messages On 02/25/2011 12:32 PM, Nelson Elhage wrote: > The cgrulesengd program from libcgroup failed to properly verify the > sender of netlink messages, allowing arbitrary users to spoof events > to the daemon, causing it to place processes into incorrect cgroups. > > Note that the default configuration of cgrulesengd does not contain > any any rules, so this is probably only usefully exploitable if an > admin have specifically configured cgrulesengd to enforce some policy. > > References: > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=27102603 Please use CVE-2011-1022. Eugene -- Eugene Teo / Red Hat Security Response Team
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