oss-security - Re: CVE request: kernel: posix-cpu-timers: workaround to suppress the problems with mt exec

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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 08:12:30 -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: posix-cpu-timers:
 workaround to suppress the problems with mt exec

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

> This issue can trigger a BUG_ON() in posix_cpu_timer_del(). More info
> 
> at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656264
> 
> Upstream commit:
> http://git.kernel.org/linus/e0a70217107e6f9844628120412cb27bb4cea194
> 

Please use CVE-2010-4248

Thanks.

-- 
    JB

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