[kernel] r5063 - patch-tracking

[Moritz Muehlenhoff]

Author: jmm-guest
Date: Wed Dec 21 11:55:16 2005
New Revision: 5063

Added:
   patch-tracking/CVE-2005-0916
Log:
Another older issue already adressed in 2.6.8-16


Added: patch-tracking/CVE-2005-0916
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+Candidate: CVE-2005-0916
+References: 
+ http://groups-beta.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/13b43bd5783842f6/7ce3c5a514a497ab
+ http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset%404248c8c0es30_4YVdwa6vteKi7h_nw
+ http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_50_kernel.html
+Description: 
+ AIO in the Linux kernel 2.6.11 on the PPC64 or IA64 architectures with
+ CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE enabled allows local panic) via a process that executes
+ the io_queue_init function but exits without running io_queue_release, which
+ to fail.
+Notes: 
+Bugs: 
+upstream: 
+linux-2.6:
+2.6.8-sarge-security: N/A
+2.4.27-sarge-security: N/A
+2.6.8: released (2.6.8-16) [arch-ppc64-hugepage-aio-panic.dpatch]
+2.4.19-woody-security: 
+2.4.18-woody-security: 
+2.4.17-woody-security: 
+2.4.16-woody-security: 
+2.4.17-woody-security-hppa: 
+2.4.17-woody-security-ia64: