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CVE-2016-0723: Linux kernel: Kernel memory disclosure.
From: Wade Mealing <wmealing () redhat com>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 12:30:57 +1000
A flaw was discovered in the linux kernel tty subsystem which allows for disclosure of uncontrolled memory location and possible kernel panic. The information leak is caused by a race condition when attempting to set and read the tty line discipline. An attacker can use the TIOCSETD (via tty_set_ldisc ) to switch to a new line discipline, a concurrent call to with a TIOCGETD ioctl performs a read on a given tty may be able to access memory previously allocated. Up to 4 bytes may leaked to userspace when querying the line discipline. Thanks, Wade Mealing Red Hat Product Security Upstream fix: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5c17c861a357e9458001f021a7afa7aab9937439 Upstream discussion: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1511.3/03045.html Red Hat bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1296253
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- CVE-2016-0723: Linux kernel: Kernel memory disclosure. Wade Mealing (Apr 26)