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Message-ID: <4DA27647.3010400@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:32:23 +0800
From: Eugene Teo <eugene@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>,
"Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request: kernel: inotify memory leak
On 11/24/2010 09:17 PM, Josh Bressers wrote:
>
> ----- "Eugene Teo"<eugene@...hat.com> wrote:
>
>> Reported by Vegard Nossum, if inotify_init is unable to allocate a new
>>
>> file for the new inotify group we leak the new group.
>>
>> Reproducer: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/23/418 (this test case is
>> only
>> relevant if c44dcc56 (v2.6.34-rc1) is backported)
>>
>> Issue was introduced in 63c882a0 (v2.6.31-rc1).
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/656830
>
> Please use CVE-2010-4250
A regression was found. We assigned it with CVE-2011-1479. Fix for it
can be found at: http://git.kernel.org/linus/d0de4dc5. More info here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/CVE-2011-1479.
Thanks, Eugene
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