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Message-ID: <4EFAAAE9.3030907@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:36:41 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Eugene Teo <eteo@...hat.com>, Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@...ian.org>,
        Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
Subject: Re: Status of two Linux kernel issues w/o CVE assignments

On 12/24/2011 02:53 PM, Eugene Teo wrote:
>>> 2: /proc/$PID/{sched,schedstat} information leak
>>> Vasiliy Kulikov of OpenWall posted a demo exploit.
>>> http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/05/3
>>>
>>> AFAICS no CVE ID was assigned to this?
>> I believe we are not assigning CVE's for these types of proc related
>> issues, some discussion was had:
>>
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/7/368
>>
>> http://www.google.com/custom?domains=lkml.org&q=%2Fproc%2F+leaks
>>
>> but I'm not sure what the outcome is. CC'ing Eugene Teo.
===========
> IIRC, it's an issue but there's no resolution as existing code may break.
>
> There are also,
> /proc/{interrupts, stat}
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/7/340
Please use CVE-2011-4915 for this issue.
>
> /dev/pts/, /dev/tty*
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/7/355
Please use CVE-2011-4916 for this issue.


>
> I have not checked the status of these issues. Vasiliy, kindly shed some
> light.
>
> Happy holidays.
>
> Eugene


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-Kurt Seifried / Red Hat Security Response Team

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