From 5781c3592154fbfbaaa0431b94a8d238332ce383 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Moritz Muehlenhoff Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 06:48:06 +0000 Subject: retire issues git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/kernel-sec@1872 e094ebfe-e918-0410-adfb-c712417f3574 --- retired/CVE-2008-7256 | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) create mode 100644 retired/CVE-2008-7256 (limited to 'retired/CVE-2008-7256') diff --git a/retired/CVE-2008-7256 b/retired/CVE-2008-7256 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..915cb514 --- /dev/null +++ b/retired/CVE-2008-7256 @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +Candidate: CVE-2008-7256 +Description: + mm/shmem.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28-rc8, when strict overcommit is enabled + and CONFIG_SECURITY is disabled, does not properly handle the export of shmemfs + objects by knfsd, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer + dereference and knfsd crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown + vectors. NOTE: this vulnerability exists of an incomplete fix for CVE-2010-1643. +References: + http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/05/27/1 + http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1b79cd04fab80be61dcd2732e2423aafde9a4c1c + http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/v2.6.28/ChangeLog-2.6.28-rc8 + https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=595970 +Notes: +Bugs: +upstream: released (2.6.28) +2.6.32-upstream-stable: N/A +linux-2.6: released (2.6.28-1) +2.6.26-lenny-security: released (2.6.26-23) [bugfix/all/nfsd-fix-vm-overcommit-crash-2.patch] +2.6.32-squeeze-security: N/A -- cgit v1.2.3