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Re: CVE request: kernel: xfs: XFS_IOC_FSGETXATTR ioctl memory leak


From: Josh Bressers <bressers () redhat com>
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 15:33:33 -0400 (EDT)

Please use CVE-2010-3078

Thanks.

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    JB


----- "Eugene Teo" <eugene () redhat com> wrote:

From Dan Rosenberg, "the XFS_IOC_FSGETXATTR ioctl allows unprivileged

users to read 12 bytes of uninitialized stack memory, because the 
fsxattr struct declared on the stack in xfs_ioc_fsgetxattr() does not

alter (or zero) the 12-byte fsx_pad member before copying it back to
the 
user."

http://www.linux.sgi.com/archives/xfs-masters/2010-09/msg00002.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=630804

Thanks, Eugene
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