Bug 252688 (CVE-2008-5700)

Summary:	Linux <2.6.27.9 Enforce a minimum SG_IO timeout (CVE-2008-5700)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) <rbu>
Component:	Kernel	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	hardened-kernel+disabled, kernel
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git;a=commit;h=f2f1fa78a155524b849edf359e42a3001ea652c0
Whiteboard:	[linux <2.6.27.9]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-12-27 13:56:50 UTC

CVE-2008-5700 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-5700):
  libata in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27.9 does not set minimum
  timeouts for SG_IO requests, which allows local users to cause a
  denial of service (Programmed I/O mode on drives) via multiple
  simultaneous invocations of an unspecified test program.