Re: Re: [PATCH] acpi: debugfs: fix buffer overflows, double free

[Josh Bressers <bressers () redhat com>]

----- Original Message -----
> On 01/23/2011 04:13 AM, Steven M. Christey wrote:
> > On Fri, 21 Jan 2011, Eugene Teo wrote:
> >
> > > On 01/21/2011 04:08 AM, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> > > > File position is not controlled, it may lead to overwrites of
> > > > arbitrary
> > > > kernel memory. Also the code may kfree() the same pointer multiple
> > > > times.
> > >
> > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/1/20/348
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/CVE-2011-0023
> > >
> > > Please use CVE-2011-0023 (this does not include the unresolved flaw
> > > described in the following paragraph below).
> >
> > There seem to be 2 types of issues described above - the
> > uncontrolled
> > file position / memory overwrite, and a "double free". So there
> > should
> > probably be 2 separate CVEs, not one. Am I missing something?
>
> Sorry about it. Please see http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2011/q1/106.

Eugene, does the "unresolved flaw" still need an ID? This thread now
confuses me.

Thanks.

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    JB