oss-security - Re: CVE request: kernel: ksm: race between ksmd and exiting task

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Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:56:12 +0530
From: Huzaifa Sidhpurwala <huzaifas@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Eugene Teo <eugene@...hat.com>,
        "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request: kernel: ksm: race between ksmd and
 exiting task

On 06/03/2011 11:37 AM, Eugene Teo wrote:
> A race condition issue was found in the KSM implementation.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=710338
> Report: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg20233.html
> Proposed patch: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg20301.html
> 
> Thanks, Eugene

This has been assigned CVE-2011-2183

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