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Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:37:59 +0300
From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
To: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...-smtp.mitre.org>
Cc: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@...nel.org>, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] acpi: debugfs: fix buffer overflows, double free
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 15:13 -0500, Steven M. Christey wrote:
>
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2011, Eugene Teo wrote:
>
> >On 01/21/2011 04:08 AM, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> >>File position is not controlled, it may lead to overwrites of arbitrary
> >>kernel memory. Also the code may kfree() the same pointer multiple
> >>times.
> >
> >http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/1/20/348
> >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/CVE-2011-0023
> >
> >Please use CVE-2011-0023 (this does not include the unresolved
> >flaw described in the following paragraph below).
>
> There seem to be 2 types of issues described above - the
> uncontrolled file position / memory overwrite, and a "double free".
If you want to count every bug in this code, here you are: if zero *ppos
after each write() then buf is leaked :-)
> So there should probably be 2 separate CVEs, not one. Am I missing
> something?
>
> - Steve
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Vasiliy Kulikov
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