[kernel-sec-discuss] r1451 - dsa-texts

Dann Frazier dannf at alioth.debian.org
Fri Aug 14 19:00:02 UTC 2009


Author: dannf
Date: 2009-08-14 19:00:01 +0000 (Fri, 14 Aug 2009)
New Revision: 1451

Modified:
   dsa-texts/2.6.26-17lenny1
Log:
fix typo

Modified: dsa-texts/2.6.26-17lenny1
===================================================================
--- dsa-texts/2.6.26-17lenny1	2009-08-13 21:25:06 UTC (rev 1450)
+++ dsa-texts/2.6.26-17lenny1	2009-08-14 19:00:01 UTC (rev 1451)
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@
 
 CVE-2009-1895
 
-    Julien Tinnes and Tavis Ormandy reported and issue in the Linux
-    vulnerability code. Local users can take advantage of a setuid
+    Julien Tinnes and Tavis Ormandy reported an issue in the Linux
+    personality code. Local users can take advantage of a setuid
     binary that can either be made to dereference a NULL pointer or
     drop privileges and return control to the user. This allows a
     user to bypass mmap_min_addr restrictions which can be exploited




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