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| author | Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debian.org> | 2007-04-30 17:08:05 +0000 |
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| committer | Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debian.org> | 2007-04-30 17:08:05 +0000 |
| commit | 6471f3dab8b9f08bf043c1fcc49f8a0bf467300a (patch) | |
| tree | 7dd98d6bb1c3629dde5999bcefede30fd9d5deee /retired/CVE-2006-5174 | |
| parent | 8290df912ecbf23e19610e57952fc68c45d59103 (diff) | |
retire several issues
git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/kernel-sec@774 e094ebfe-e918-0410-adfb-c712417f3574
Diffstat (limited to 'retired/CVE-2006-5174')
| -rw-r--r-- | retired/CVE-2006-5174 | 22 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/retired/CVE-2006-5174 b/retired/CVE-2006-5174 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..10481819 --- /dev/null +++ b/retired/CVE-2006-5174 @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +Candidate: CVE-2006-5174 +References: + http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=52149ba6b0ddf3e9d965257cc0513193650b3ea8 +Description: + The copy_from_user function in the uaccess code in Linux kernel 2.6 + before 2.6.19-rc1, when running on s390, does not properly clear a + kernel buffer, which allows local user space programs to read + portions of kernel memory by "appending to a file from a bad + address," which triggers a fault that prevents the unused memory from + being cleared in the kernel buffer. +Ubuntu-Description: +Notes: + jmm> Fix from 2.6.18-3 was reverted, caused problems +Bugs: +upstream: released (2.6.18.1) +linux-2.6: needed +2.6.8-sarge-security: released (2.6.8-16sarge6) [s390-uaccess-memleak.dpatch] +2.4.27-sarge-security: released (2.4.27-10sarge5) [236_s390-uaccess-memleak.diff] +2.6.10-hoary-security: ignored +2.6.12-breezy-security: ignored +2.6.15-dapper-security: ignored +2.6.17-edgy: ignored |