Re: CVE-2011-0714 kernel: deficiency in handling of invalid data packets in lockd

[Eugene Teo <eugene () redhat com>]

On 03/09/2011 03:41 AM, Petr Matousek wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Josh Bressers has assigned a CVE id CVE-2011-0714 to the following bug:
>
> "It was found that lockd did not properly handle data packets that contained
> invalid data. This could be possibly exploited by remote user to crash the
> server (DoS)."
>
> Please note that this issue only affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 as a
> result of an incomplete upstream commit backport.
>
> References:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678144

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0329.html

Eugene
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