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Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:10:38 -0500
From: Michael Gilbert <michael.s.gilbert@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Status of two Linux kernel issues w/o CVE assignments
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Kurt Seifried wrote:
> On 12/22/2011 09:44 AM, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> there were a two Linux-related CVE requests/discussions, which
>> didn't end up in an assignment:
>>
>> 1: rose: Add length checks to CALL_REQUEST parsing
>> e0bccd315db0c2f919e7fcf9cb60db21d9986f52 in mainline
>>
>> It was decided that this should be split, but without a final
>> resulting CVE assignment:
>> http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/12/1
>
>
> Can anyone shed more light on this for me? (links to fixes/etc.?).
As stated in Moritz's original message, the linux kernel git commit id
is e0bccd315. Here is a link directly to a message with the patch:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=130063972406389&w=2
>>
>> 2: /proc/$PID/{sched,schedstat} information leak
>> Vasiliy Kulikov of OpenWall posted a demo exploit.
>> http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/05/3
>>
>> AFAICS no CVE ID was assigned to this?
>
>
> I believe we are not assigning CVE's for these types of proc related issues,
> some discussion was had:
Infoleaks certainly do get an id as they are considered an exposure
(i.e. they make an exploiters job easier); as in Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE):
http://cve.mitre.org
Best wishes,
Mike
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