oss-security - Re: Linux 2.6.30+/SELinux/RHEL5 test kernel 0day, exploiting the unexploitable

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Message-ID: <20090720144432.GA9115@kroah.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:44:32 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: dailydave <dailydave@...ts.immunitysec.com>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.30+/SELinux/RHEL5 test kernel 0day,
 exploiting the unexploitable

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:01:47PM +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 09:23:03AM +0200, yersinia wrote:
> > FYI, a Sprengler 0-day against Selinux null ptr dereference. Very Nice
> > to see in action
> > 
> > reference ( with youtube link )
> > 
> > http://grsecurity.net/~spender/cheddar_bay.tgz
> 
> Yeah.
> 
> Some "minor" bugs and one larger one.
> 
> The Linux folks have meanwhile:
> 
> - Fixed the actual bug. ;) (CVE-2009-1897)
>   Only affects 2.6.30,2.6.30.1.
> 
>   2.6.30.2 release soon.
> 
> - Added -fno-delete-null-pointers to their Makefiles
> 
>   Also in 2.6.30.2 and 2.
> 
> - fixed the personality - PER_CLEAR_ON_SETTID inheritance issue (CVE-2009-1895)
>   to work around mmap_min_addr protection.
>   Affects 2.6.23-2.6.30.1
> 
>   2.6.30.2 and 2.6.27.x releases soon.

2.6.30.2 and 2.6.27.27 releases happened about 8 hours ago.

thanks,

greg k-h

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