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Re: CVE request: kernel: connector security bypass
From: Mark J Cox <mjc () redhat com>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 11:37:21 +0000 (GMT)
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Eugene Teo wrote:
1/ uvesafb/connector: Disallow unprivileged users to send netlink packets upstream commit: cc44578b5a508889beb8ae3ccd4d2bbdf17bc86c introduced in v2.6.24-rc1; fixed in v2.6.32-rc3 2/ pohmelfs/connector: Disallow unprivileged users to configure pohmelfs upstream commit: 98a5783af02f4c9b87b676d7bbda6258045cfc76 (staging/experimental) 3/ dst/connector: Disallow unprivileged users to configure dst upstream commit: 5788c56891cfb310e419c4f9ae20427851797431 (staging/experimental) 4/ dm/connector: Only process connector packages from privileged processes upstream commit: 24836479a126e02be691e073c2b6cad7e7ab836a introduced in v2.6.31-rc1; fixed in v2.6.32-rc3
References: http://secunia.com/advisories/37113/ http://xorl.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/linux-kernel-multiple-capabilities-missing-checks/
I'm going to give one name to all four issues. (Allowed as they are all of flaw type 'missing capability checks', found by the same reporter, and fixed at the same time).
CVE-2009-3725 Mark
Current thread:
- CVE request: kernel: connector security bypass Eugene Teo (Nov 02)
- Re: CVE request: kernel: connector security bypass Mark J Cox (Nov 02)