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From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Ulrich Keil <ulrich@der-keiler.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: New do_mremap vulnerabitily.
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 13:43:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4033B262.6060402@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20040218170827.GA93278@mail.der-keiler.de

Ulrich Keil wrote:
> There was also a Proof-of-concept exploit released:
> 
> http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Securiteam/2004-02/0052.html

Its a bit confusing.  They talk about multiple instances of do_munmap() 
with unchecked return codes.  I can only find one, in move_vma().

Chris




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  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-18 18:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-18 17:08 New do_mremap vulnerabitily Ulrich Keil
2004-02-18 18:43 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2004-02-18 20:20   ` Richard B. Johnson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-02-18 15:26 Raphael Rigo
2004-02-18 17:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-02-18 22:13   ` Chris Friesen
2004-02-18 22:26     ` Linus Torvalds
2004-02-18 23:49       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-02-18 23:46     ` Andrea Arcangeli

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