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Re: CVE request - kernel: xfs swapext ioctl issue


From: Josh Bressers <bressers () redhat com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:27:15 -0400 (EDT)

Please use CVE-2010-2226 for this.

Thanks.

-- 
    JB


----- "Eugene Teo" <eugeneteo () kernel sg> wrote:

User "foo" can use the SWAPEXT ioctl to swap a write-only file owned
by 
user "bar" into a file owned by "foo" and subsequently reading it. It

does so by checking that the file descriptors passed to the ioctl are

also opened for reading.

References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=605158
http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20100616.130710.301704aa.en.html
http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20100616.135735.40f53a32.en.html

Thanks, Eugene
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