From 5a021e9ffd56c22700133ebc37d607f95be8f7bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt Mackall Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:30:14 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] random: fix bound check ordering (CVE-2007-3105) If root raised the default wakeup threshold over the size of the output pool, the pool transfer function could overflow the stack with RNG bytes, causing a DoS or potential privilege escalation. (Bug reported by the PaX Team ) Cc: Theodore Tso Cc: Willy Tarreau Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall Signed-off-by: Chris Wright Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed