First published: Fri Nov 12 2010(Updated: )
Due to integer underflow and overflow issues when determining the number of pages required for maliciously crafted I/O requests, a local user could send a device ioctl that results in the sequential allocation of a very large number of pages, causing the OOM killer to be invoked and crashing the system: Proposed patch: <a href="http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-2.6-block.git;a=commit;h=cb4644cac4a2797afc847e6c92736664d4b0ea34">http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-2.6-block.git;a=commit;h=cb4644cac4a2797afc847e6c92736664d4b0ea34</a> Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank Dan Rosenberg for reporting this issue.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com secalert@redhat.com
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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debian/linux-2.6 | ||
debian/user-mode-linux | ||
Linux Linux kernel | <2.6.36.2 | |
Fedoraproject Fedora | =13 | |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server | =10-sp3 | |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop | =11-sp1 | |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server | =11-sp1 | |
openSUSE openSUSE | =11.2 | |
openSUSE openSUSE | =11.3 | |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop | =10-sp3 | |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit | =10-sp3 | |
Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension | =11-sp1 |
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