Re: CVE request: kernel: watchdog: ib700wdt.c - buffer_underflow bug

[Marcus Meissner <meissner () suse de>]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:14:27AM +0800, Eugene Teo wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Steven M. Christey
> <coley () linus mitre org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Eugene Teo wrote:
> >
> > > Steve, here's another one that needs a CVE name. Thanks!
> > >
> > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11399
> >
> > Similar to the other issue, is this IOCTL reachable by anyone malicious?
>
> From what I can see in ibwdt_ioctl(), it does not restrict access to
> unprivileged users.

Again, depends on how the device node is created I think. Not sure
what mode udev hands out for those.

Ciao, Marcus