oss-security - Re: Status of two Linux kernel issues w/o CVE assignments

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Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:45:55 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Eugene Teo <eteo@...hat.com>, Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@...ian.org>,
        Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
Subject: Re: Status of two Linux kernel issues w/o CVE assignments

My mistake, the /proc/interupts and /proc/stat should be two separate 
CVE's, I misunderstood the issue.

===========
>> IIRC, it's an issue but there's no resolution as existing code may 
>> break.
>>
>> There are also,
>> /proc/{interrupts, stat}
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/7/340 

Please use CVE-2011-4915 for the /proc/interupts issue

Please use CVE-2011-4917 for the /proc/stat issue



>>
>> /dev/pts/, /dev/tty*
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/7/355
> Please use CVE-2011-4916 for this issue.
>


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