Bug#322339: CAN-2004-2302: Race condition allows DoS through large offsets in sysfs files
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 11:53:00AM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> Package: kernel-source-2.6.8
> Severity: important
> Tags: security patch
>
> CAN-2004-2302 describes a kernel DoS through a race condition, that can be triggered
> by overly long sysfs offsets. Please see
> http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset%404186a4deVoR88JjTwMa3ZnIp-_YJsA
> for description and a patch. 2.4 doesn't seem to use sysfs and it should already be
> fixed in 2.6.12.
Thanks, I will look into porting that change to 2.6.8.
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Horms
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