Re: CVE request: kernel: flat: fix uninitialized ptr with shared libs

[Eugene Teo <eugene () redhat com>]

Steven M. Christey wrote:
> Use CVE-2009-2845, to be filled in soon.

This has been assigned CVE-2009-2768. Duplicate CVE.

Thanks, Eugene

> On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Eugene Teo wrote:
>
> > The new credentials code broke load_flat_shared_library() as it now uses
> > an uninitialised cred pointer, leading to a NULL pointer dereference.
> > This can be triggered by running a shared flat binary.
> >
> > kernel/cred.c was introduced in v2.6.29-rc1 IIRC.
> >
> > Upstream commit:
> > http://git.kernel.org/linus/3440625d78711bee41a84cf29c3d8c579b522666
> >
> > References:
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/22/91
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.hardware.blackfin.kernel.devel/1905
> >
> > Thanks, Eugene