oss-security - Re: CVE request: kernel: arbitrary kernel read in xtensa

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Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:52:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: coley <coley@...re.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request: kernel: arbitrary kernel read in
 xtensa

Please use CVE-2011-2707.

Thanks.

-- 
    JB

----- Original Message -----
> Not sure if any distributions support xtensa, but regardless:
> 
> Due to a failure to check user pointers passed to a ptrace_setxregs
> request, it is possible for a local unprivileged user to read
> arbitrary kernel memory [1].
> 
> -Dan
> 
> [1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=131008344912672&w=2

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