oss-security - Re: CVE request: kernel: unix socket local dos

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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 08:15:05 -0500 (EST)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request: kernel: unix socket local dos


----- "Eugene Teo" <eugene@...hat.com> wrote:

> Reported by Vegard Nossum: "I found this program lying around on my 
> laptop. It kills my box (2.6.35) instantly by consuming a lot of
> memory 
> (allocated by the kernel, so the process doesn't get killed by the OOM
> 
> killer). As far as I can tell, the memory isn't being freed when the 
> program exits either. Maybe it will eventually get cleaned up the UNIX
> 
> socket garbage collector thing, but in that case it doesn't get called
> 
> quickly enough to save my machine at least."
> 
> Reproducer: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/23/395
> Partial fix: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/23/450
> Reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656756
> 

Please use CVE-2010-4249

Thanks.

-- 
    JB

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