The apparmor_setprocattr function in security/apparmor/lsm.c in the Linux kernel before...
Vulnerability Description
The apparmor_setprocattr function in security/apparmor/lsm.c in the Linux kernel before 3.0 does not properly handle invalid parameters, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) or possibly have unspecified other impact by writing to a /proc/#####/attr/current file.
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References
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a5b2c5b2ad5853591a6cac6134cd0f599a720865
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.0
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a5b2c5b2ad5853591a6cac6134cd0f599a720865
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/17/6
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