oss-security - CVE-2011-4324 kernel: nfsv4: mknod(2) DoS

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Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 09:40:42 +0800
From: Eugene Teo <eugene@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: CVE-2011-4324 kernel: nfsv4: mknod(2) DoS

This only affects the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5. It is possible to trigger the BUG() in fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c on a
NFSv4 mount. This patch fixed the problem, although we only backported
the relevant parts of the patch,
http://git.kernel.org/linus/dc0b027dfadfcb8a5504f7d8052754bf8d501ab9.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/CVE-2011-4324

Thanks, Eugene

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