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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 22:33:50 -0500 (EST)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: carnil@...ian.org
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request: Linux: unix: correctly track in-flight fds in sending process user_struct sockets

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> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=415e3d3e90ce9e18727e8843ae343eda5a58fad6

>> unix: correctly track in-flight fds in sending process user_struct

>> The commit referenced in the Fixes tag incorrectly accounted the
>> number of in-flight fds over a unix domain socket to the original
>> opener of the file-descriptor. This allows another process to
>> arbitrary deplete the original file-openers resource limit for the
>> maximum of open files.

Use CVE-2016-2550.

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