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Re: CVE request: kernel: splice local denial of service
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley () linus mitre org>
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 13:43:33 -0400 (EDT)
====================================================== Name: CVE-2009-1961 Status: Candidate URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1961 Reference: MLIST:[oss-security] 20090529 CVE request: kernel: splice local denial of service Reference: URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/05/29/2 Reference: MLIST:[oss-security] 20090530 Re: CVE request: kernel: splice local denial of service Reference: URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/05/30/1 Reference: MLIST:[oss-security] 20090602 Re: CVE request: kernel: splice local denial of service Reference: URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/06/02/2 Reference: MLIST:[oss-security] 20090603 Re: CVE request: kernel: splice local denial of service Reference: URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/06/03/1 Reference: CONFIRM:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=7bfac9ecf0585962fe13584f5cf526d8c8e76f17 Reference: BID:35143 Reference: URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35143 Reference: SECTRACK:1022307 Reference: URL:http://securitytracker.com/id?1022307 The inode double locking code in fs/ocfs2/file.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.30 before 2.6.30-rc3, 2.6.27 before 2.6.27.24, 2.6.29 before 2.6.29.4, and possibly other versions down to 2.6.19 allows local users to cause a denial of service (prevention of file creation and removal) via a series of splice system calls that trigger a deadlock between the generic_file_splice_write, splice_from_pipe, and ocfs2_file_splice_write functions.
Current thread:
- CVE request: kernel: splice local denial of service Marcus Meissner (May 29)
- Re: CVE request: kernel: splice local denial of service Jon Oberheide (May 30)
- Re: CVE request: kernel: splice local denial of service Miklos Szeredi (Jun 02)
- Re: CVE request: kernel: splice local denial of service Eugene Teo (Jun 02)
- Re: CVE request: kernel: splice local denial of service Steven M. Christey (Jun 06)
- Re: CVE request: kernel: splice local denial of service Miklos Szeredi (Jun 02)
- Re: CVE request: kernel: splice local denial of service Jon Oberheide (May 30)