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Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:13:01 +0200
From: Petr Matousek <pmatouse@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: CVE request: kernel: tomoyo: oops in tomoyo_mount_acl()

Description of problem:
In tomoyo_mount_acl() since 2.6.36, kern_path() was called without
checking dev_name != NULL. As a result, an unprivileged user can
trigger oops by issuing mount(NULL, "/", "ext3", 0, NULL) request.

Upstream fix:
4e78c724d47e2342aa8fde61f6b8536f662f795f

Thanks,
-- 
Petr Matousek / Red Hat Security Response Team

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