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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:57:01 -0500
From: Xi Wang <xi.wang@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: CVE request: kernel: xfs heap overflow
Commit ef14f0c1578dce4b688726eb2603e50b62d6665a introduced an integer
overflow in the ACL handling code, which could further lead to
heap-based buffer overflow via a crafted filesystem.
Upstream commits:
http://git.kernel.org/linus/fa8b18edd752a8b4e9d1ee2cd615b82c93cf8bba
http://git.kernel.org/linus/093019cf1b18dd31b2c3b77acce4e000e2cbc9ce
Both commits are needed to fix the vulnerability.
The vulnerability seems to first appear in 2.6.32-rc1. 3.2 contains
only the first commit.
- xi
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