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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 19:24:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: ppandit@...hat.com
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: Linux kernel: tty: kobject reference leakage in tty_open
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> Linux kernel built with the virtual console support(CONFIG_VT) is vulnerable
> to a NULL pointer dereference issue. It could occur while accessing pseudo
> terminal device(/dev/pts/*) files.
>
> An unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system kernel resulting
> in DoS.
>
> https://git.kernel.org/linus/c290f8358acaeffd8e0c551ddcc24d1206143376
> TTY: drop driver reference in tty_open fail path
>
> When tty_driver_lookup_tty fails in tty_open, we forget to drop a reference to the tty driver.
>
> Fix that by adding tty_driver_kref_put to the fail path.
Use CVE-2011-5321.
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