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authorMatt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>2007-07-19 11:30:14 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-07-19 14:21:04 -0700
commit5a021e9ffd56c22700133ebc37d607f95be8f7bd (patch)
tree0d289c7feec4e7b3b19c7c312e8cb31532c5b9c9 /arch
parentf745bb1c73e2395e6b9961d4d915a8f8e2cd32cd (diff)
random: fix bound check ordering (CVE-2007-3105)
If root raised the default wakeup threshold over the size of the output pool, the pool transfer function could overflow the stack with RNG bytes, causing a DoS or potential privilege escalation. (Bug reported by the PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>) Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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