Re: CVE request: kernel: memory disclosure in SO_BSDCOMPAT gsopt

["Steven M. Christey" <coley () linus mitre org>]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Eugene Teo wrote:

> Eugene Teo wrote:
> > [...]
> > The fix for CVE-2009-0676 (upstream commit df0bca04) is incomplete. Note
> > that the same problem of leaking kernel memory will reappear if someone
> > on some architecture uses struct timeval with some internal padding (for
> > example tv_sec 64-bit and tv_usec 32-bit) --- then, you are going to
> > leak the padded bytes to userspace.

Is this going to require a separate CVE identifier?  If a new minor
version of the kernel wasn't released yet, then I'd consider the fix to be
little more than a couple patch-discussion messages in a single Bugzilla
entry.

- Steve