CVE-2010-1162 Information

Description

The release_one_tty function in drivers/char/tty_io.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.34-rc4 omits certain required calls to the put_pid function which has unspecified impact and local attack vectors.

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6da8d866d0d39e9509ff826660f6a86a6757c966 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-07/msg00006.html http://secunia.com/advisories/39830 http://secunia.com/advisories/40645 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2053 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.34-rc4 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:198 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/14/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/15/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/15/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/16/1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1857 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=582076