Troy Dawson wrote:
> Stephan Wiesand wrote:
>> On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 11:59 +0100, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
>>> On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Urs Beyerle wrote:
>>>> I guess SL is affected like most other Linux distributions.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not 100% sure, but setting vm.mmap_min_addr to a value above 0
>>>> should prevent an exploit.
>>>>
>>>> # sysctl vm.mmap_min_addr=4096
>>> The default on my SL53 machines appears to be 65536
>>> so there may be no need to do this.
>>>
>>> And Stephan Wiesand <[log in to unmask]> replied:
>>>> I successfully rooted a 32bit SL5 system with SELinux enabled
>>>> and vm.mmap_min_addr=64k with the public exploit :-(
>>> Did this machine have kernel-2.6.18-128.4.1.el5 and hence the 
>>> fix for CVE-2009-1895 which allows a user to bypass mmap_min_addr - see
>> Yes.
>>
>>> https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1193.html  ? 
>>> Though I did see that there are other ways of bypassing
>>> vm.mmap_min_addr :-(
>> Yes, and they work fine :-/
>>
> 
> Has anyone with a TAM with RedHat reported this to them yet?

You mean
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-2692, right?


> I'm pretty sure someone has, I just want to verify and get a bug 
> tracking number.

There is also an IT, you should be able to see it.

Matthias

> 
> Troy