oss-security - CVE request: kernel: tc: uninitialised kernel memory leak

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Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:45:03 +0800
From: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@...nel.sg>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: CVE request: kernel: tc: uninitialised kernel memory leak

Three bytes of uninitialised kernel memory are currently leaked to user.

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/32830/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=520990

Thanks, Eugene

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