CVE-2010-0622 Information

Description

The wake_futex_pi function in kernel/futex.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.33-rc7 does not properly handle certain unlock operations for a Priority Inheritance (PI) futex which allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) and possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving modification of the futex value from user space.

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=51246bfd189064079c54421507236fd2723b18f3 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035070.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00000.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00006.html http://secunia.com/advisories/38779 http://secunia.com/advisories/38905 http://secunia.com/advisories/38922 http://secunia.com/advisories/39033 http://secunia.com/advisories/43315 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2005 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.33-rc7 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:088 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:198 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/02/09/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/02/11/2 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0161.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/516397/100/0/threaded http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-914-1 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0003.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0638 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=563091 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9655