oss-security - Re: CVE request: kernel: inotify local DoS

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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:27:36 +0800
From: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@...nel.sg>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>, "Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@...th.com>
Subject: Re: CVE request: kernel: inotify local DoS

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 1:41 AM, Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@...th.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 08:39:33PM -0400, Steven M. Christey wrote:
[...]
> In the 2.6.27.y stable releases, this affects 2.6.27.13 and earlier.
> In the 2.6.28.y stable releases, this affects 2.6.28.2 and earlier.

The problem occurs between upstream commits 16dbc6c96163 and 3632dee2f8b8.

Thanks, Eugene

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