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Message-ID: <4D76D06E.4030405@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 08:57:18 +0800
From: Eugene Teo <eugene@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Petr Matousek <pmatouse@...hat.com>, coley@...us.mitre.org
Subject: Re: CVE-2011-0714 kernel: deficiency in handling of
 invalid data packets in lockd

On 03/09/2011 03:41 AM, Petr Matousek wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Josh Bressers has assigned a CVE id CVE-2011-0714 to the following bug:
>
> "It was found that lockd did not properly handle data packets that contained
> invalid data. This could be possibly exploited by remote user to crash the
> server (DoS)."
>
> Please note that this issue only affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 as a
> result of an incomplete upstream commit backport.
>
> References:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678144

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0329.html

Eugene
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