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Re: [PATCH] acpi: debugfs: fix buffer overflows, double free
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley () rcf-smtp mitre org>
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 15:13:29 -0500 (EST)
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-2011-0023Please 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?
- Steve
Current thread:
- Re: [PATCH] acpi: debugfs: fix buffer overflows, double free Eugene Teo (Jan 20)
- Re: [PATCH] acpi: debugfs: fix buffer overflows, double free Vasiliy Kulikov (Jan 21)
- Re: [PATCH] acpi: debugfs: fix buffer overflows, double free Eugene Teo (Jan 21)
- Re: [PATCH] acpi: debugfs: fix buffer overflows, double free Steven M. Christey (Jan 22)
- Re: Re: [PATCH] acpi: debugfs: fix buffer overflows, double free Eugene Teo (Jan 22)
- Re: Re: [PATCH] acpi: debugfs: fix buffer overflows, double free Josh Bressers (Jan 24)
- Re: Re: [PATCH] acpi: debugfs: fix buffer overflows, double free Eugene Teo (Jan 24)
- Re: Re: [PATCH] acpi: debugfs: fix buffer overflows, double free Eugene Teo (Jan 22)
- Re: [PATCH] acpi: debugfs: fix buffer overflows, double free Vasiliy Kulikov (Jan 24)
- Re: [PATCH] acpi: debugfs: fix buffer overflows, double free Vasiliy Kulikov (Jan 21)