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md raid null ptr dereference (when sysfs is writable)


From: Marcus Meissner <meissner () suse de>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:22:53 +0200

Hi,

http://xorl.wordpress.com/2009/07/21/linux-kernel-md-driver-null-pointer-dereference/

2.6.30 stable:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.30.y.git;a=commit;h=3c92900d9a4afb176d3de335dc0da0198660a244
mainline:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=b8d966efd9a46a9a35beac50cbff6e30565125ef

While not directly exploitable, its just needs write access to the sysfs files
to get exploited, so I guess this warrants a CVE number.

Ciao, Marcus


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