Re: Three more security problems in the 2.6 kernel

[Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>]

Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> Hi Horms / security team,
> I found three more security related reports/patches on linux-kernel.
> 
> Cheers,
>         Moritz
> 
> From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> 
> Plug request_key_auth memleak.  This can be triggered by unprivileged
> users, so is local DoS.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
> Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
> ---
>  security/keys/request_key_auth.c |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> --- linux-2.6.13.y.orig/security/keys/request_key_auth.c
> +++ linux-2.6.13.y/security/keys/request_key_auth.c
> @@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ static void request_key_auth_destroy(str
>         kenter("{%d}", key->serial);
> 
>         key_put(rka->target_key);
> +       kfree(rka);
> 
>  } /* end request_key_auth_destroy() */

This is CAN-2005-3119 and... uh... not supposed to be public yet...

Regards,

	Joey

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