Re: CVE request: kernel: memory disclosure in SO_BSDCOMPAT gsopt

[Eugene Teo <eugeneteo () kernel sg>]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Steven M. Christey
<coley () linus mitre org> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Eugene Teo wrote:
>
> > Eugene Teo wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > The fix for CVE-2009-0676 (upstream commit df0bca04) is incomplete. Note
> > > that the same problem of leaking kernel memory will reappear if someone
> > > on some architecture uses struct timeval with some internal padding (for
> > > example tv_sec 64-bit and tv_usec 32-bit) --- then, you are going to
> > > leak the padded bytes to userspace.
>
> Is this going to require a separate CVE identifier?  If a new minor
> version of the kernel wasn't released yet, then I'd consider the fix to be
> little more than a couple patch-discussion messages in a single Bugzilla
> entry.

No, it shouldn't. Please use the same CVE name. Thanks.

Eugene