Bug 260057 (CVE-2009-0605)

Summary:	Kernel: <2.6.28.5 stack consumption vulnerability do_page_fault() (CVE-2009-0605)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Stefan Behte (RETIRED) <craig>
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=9be260a646bf76fa418ee519afa10196b3164681
Whiteboard:	[linux <2.6.27.16] [linux >=2.6.28 <2.6.28.5] [gp < 2.6.27-11] [gp >= 2.6.28-1 < 2.6.28-3]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Stefan Behte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-02-23 20:38:49 UTC

CVE-2009-0605 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-0605):
  Stack consumption vulnerability in the do_page_fault function in
  arch/x86/mm/fault.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28.5 allows local
  users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly
  gain privileges via unspecified vectors that trigger page faults on a
  machine that has a registered Kprobes probe.

Comment 1 kfm 2009-07-21 22:21:06 UTC

Note: genpatches-2.6.27-11 added 2.6.27.16. genpatches-2.6.28-3 added 2.6.28.5