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Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 20:14:42 -0400
From: Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@...ian.org>, "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE requests: Two kernel issues
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Eugene Teo <eugene@...hat.com> wrote:
> On 08/10/2011 04:42 AM, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:>
>> 2. [SCSI] pmcraid: reject negative request size
>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=b5b515445f4f5a905c5dd27e6e682868ccd6c09d
>
> I don't have a PMC Sierra MaxRAID controller, so I am not sure what's
> the permissions give to /dev/pmcsas%u. I'm checking. Meanwhile, use
> CVE-2011-2906 for this issue.
>
> Thanks, Eugene
>
This isn't a security issue because there's a check for CAP_SYS_ADMIN
on pmcraid_chr_open(), which is necessary to obtain a file descriptor
to the device file in order to call the affected ioctl. Which is why
I didn't bother CC'ing security@...nel.org. ;-)
-Dan
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