From: 3APA3A (3APA3ASECURITY.NNOV.RU)
Date: Thu Oct 04 2007 - 11:38:51 CDT

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Dear iDefense Labs,

--Wednesday, October 3, 2007, 6:32:03 PM, you wrote to vulnwatchvulnwatch.org:

iL> The vulnerability exists in the kernel ioctl() handler for FIFOs. The
iL> I_PEEK ioctl is used to peek at a number of bytes contained in the FIFO
iL> without actually removing them from the queue. One of the arguments to
iL> this command, which represents the number of bytes to peek, is a signed
iL> integer value. Since this parameter is not properly validated, a
iL> negative value can cause large amounts of kernel memory to be leaked.

Can you please clarify this issue? According to subject it looks like
information leak (information disclosure) issue, while according to
description, it looks more like memory leak (Denial of Service) issue.

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