SF post - Linux kernel file offset pointer races

[Ed Brown]

There are updates out already for RHEL2.1 and 3.  Their security
advisory added:

"These packages contain a patch written by Al Viro to correct these
flaws. 
Red Hat would like to thank iSEC Security Research for disclosing this
issue and a number of vendor-sec participants for reviewing and working
on the patch to this issue."

-Ed


On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 13:38, Simon Weller wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Paul Starzetz has just posted to SF with proof of concept for some explotiable 
> memory reads.
> 
> <sarcasm on>
> So nice of him to give everyone a little warning prior to releasing a proof of 
> concept.
> </sarcasm off> 
> 
> He's suggesting that all 2.4 and all 2.6 kernels are vunerable, and just to 
> make our lives more enjoyable, there are currently no fixes out.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Simon