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Message-ID: <4E07F762.2050000@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:22:10 +0800
From: Eugene Teo <eteo@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com,
"Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>,
Joshua Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: CVE request: kernel: mm: avoid wrapping vm_pgoff in mremap()
and stack expansions
On 06/25/2011 04:19 AM, Petr Matousek wrote:
> Description of the problem:
> The normal mmap paths all avoid creating a mapping where the pgoff
> inside the mapping could wrap around due to overflow. However, an
> expanding mremap() can take such a non-wrapping mapping and make it
> bigger and cause a wrapping condition. There is also another case
> where we expand mappings hiding in plain sight: the automatic stack
> expansion.
>
> The wrapping condition can cause a BUG_ON() due to terminally
> confusing the vma_prio_tree code.
Please use CVE-2011-2496.
Eugene
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