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Message-ID: <4E0D8CBA.8050309@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:00:42 +0800
From: Eugene Teo <eugene@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com,
        "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request: kernel: tomoyo: oops in tomoyo_mount_acl()

On 06/30/2011 06:13 PM, Petr Matousek wrote:
> Description of problem:
> In tomoyo_mount_acl() since 2.6.36, kern_path() was called without
> checking dev_name != NULL. As a result, an unprivileged user can
> trigger oops by issuing mount(NULL, "/", "ext3", 0, NULL) request.
> 
> Upstream fix:
> 4e78c724d47e2342aa8fde61f6b8536f662f795f

Use CVE-2011-2518.

Eugene

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