another RHL9 kernel patch.
Dave Jones
davej at codemonkey.org.uk
Thu Jun 17 11:03:45 UTC 2004
There's a nasty memory leak fixed in FC1 which should have been
backported to RHL9, as its user exploitable, and can be considered
a local DoS. This was CAN-2004-0427
I'm fairly certain this hasn't been picked up yet, so patch below.
Dave
--- linux-2.4.20/kernel/fork.c~ 2004-06-17 11:49:24.767644168 +0100
+++ linux-2.4.20/kernel/fork.c 2004-06-17 11:49:57.011742320 +0100
@@ -971,6 +971,8 @@
exit_namespace(p);
bad_fork_cleanup_mm:
exit_mm(p);
+ if (p->active_mm)
+ mmdrop(p->active_mm);
bad_fork_cleanup_signal:
exit_signal(p);
bad_fork_cleanup_sighand:
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