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CAN-2005-2617: local users can trigger a memory leak via a 32-bit application with crafted ELF headers



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Hey all,


CAN-2005-2617 describes a local DOS on 64bit machines:

The syscall32_setup_pages function in syscall32.c for Linux kernel
2.6.12 and later, on the 64-bit x86 platform, does not check the return
value of the insert_vm_struct function, which allows local users to
trigger a memory leak via a 32-bit application with crafted ELF headers.

http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9fb1759a3102c26cd8f64254a7c3e532782c2bb8
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=9fb1759a3102c26cd8f64254a7c3e532782c2bb8

Micah
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