Candidate: CVE-2009-1914
Description:
 The pci_register_iommu_region function in
 arch/sparc/kernel/pci_common.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.29 on
 the sparc64 platform allows local users to cause a denial of service
 (system crash) by reading the /proc/iomem file, related to
 uninitialized pointers and the request_resource function.
References:
 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/06/03/3
 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=192d7a4667c6d11d1a174ec4cad9a3c5d5f9043c
 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.29
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs: #532722
upstream: released (2.6.29)
linux-2.6: released (2.6.29-1)
2.6.18-etch-security: N/A "code not present"
2.6.24-etch-security: released (2.6.24-6~etchnhalf.8etch2) [bugfix/sparc/sparc64-Fix-crash-with-proc-iomem.patch]
2.6.26-lenny-security: released (2.6.26-16) [bugfix/sparc/sparc64-Fix-crash-with-proc-iomem.patch]
2.6.15-dapper-security:
2.6.22-gutsy-security:
2.6.24-hardy-security:
2.6.27-intrepid-security: