Re: 2.6.25.10 security fixes, please assign CVE id

[Eugene Teo <eteo () redhat com>]

Marcus Meissner wrote:
> http://lwn.net/Articles/288473/
>
> > Stable kernel 2.6.25.10
> > Posted Jul 3, 2008 15:34 UTC (Thu) by PaXTeam (subscriber, #24616) [Link] 
[...]
> > 2.
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git;a=commitdiff;h=1e9a615bfce7996ea4d815d45d364b47ac6a74e8
> > is an even better one, it allows one to overflow the task struct refcount (a 32 bit atomic_t
> > on the affected amd64) and cause its subsequent freeing with dangling references to it all
> > over the place (including 'current' of the ptraced task itself). corresponding exploit avenues
> > abound.
>
> I don't know if this one has a CVE yet.

I'm cc'ing Steve just to make sure that this gets a CVE id.

Thanks,
Eugene
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Eugene Teo / Red Hat Security Response Team