Re: CVE request: kernel: alpha: fix several security issues

[Josh Bressers <bressers () redhat com>]

----- Original Message -----
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/11/87; from Dan Rosenberg.
>
> 1. Signedness issue in osf_getdomainname allows copying out-of-bounds
> kernel memory to userland.

CVE-2011-2208


> 2. Signedness issue in osf_sysinfo allows copying large amounts of
> kernel memory to userland.

CVE-2011-2209


> 3. Typo (?) in osf_getsysinfo bounds minimum instead of maximum copy
> size, allowing copying large amounts of kernel memory to userland.

CVE-2011-2210


> 4. Usage of user pointer in osf_wait4 while under KERNEL_DS allows
> privilege escalation via writing return value of sys_wait4 to kernel
> memory.

CVE-2011-2211

Thanks.

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    JB