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CVE request: kernel: inotify local DoS


From: Eugene Teo <eugene () redhat com>
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:10:39 +0800

According to the upstream commit 3632dee2, if userspace supplies an invalid pointer to a read() of an inotify instance, the inotify device's event list mutex is unlocked twice. This causes an unbalance which effectively leaves the data structure unprotected, and we can trigger oopses by accessing the inotify instance from different tasks
concurrently.

http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/4857/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=488935

Thanks, Eugene
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Eugene Teo / Red Hat Security Response Team


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