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Message-ID: <4ECAC205.4040906@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:26:29 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE-2011-4110 kernel: keys: NULL pointer deref
in the user-defined key type
On 11/21/2011 10:51 AM, Petr Matousek wrote:
> There is a NULL pointer deref in the user-defined key type whereby
> updating a negative key into a fully instantiated key will cause
> an oops to occur when the code attempts to free the non-existent
> old payload.
>
> Upstream commit:
> 9f35a33b8d06263a165efe3541d9aa0cdbd70b3b
>
> References:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/15/363
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-4110
>
> Thanks,
Please use CVE-2011-4331 for this issue.
--
-Kurt Seifried / Red Hat Security Response Team
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