[Lucid, Maverick, Natty] SRU: Fix panic after nfs_umount

Stefan Bader stefan.bader at canonical.com
Mon Dec 13 09:02:55 UTC 2010


On 12/12/2010 04:15 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 16:58 +0100, Stefan Bader wrote:
>> SRU justification:
>>
>> Impact: When trying to mount an export where server and client have no common
>> authentication method, the client will abort the mount by sending an advisory
>> unmount message to the server. A bug in the RPC client setup causes the sunrpc
>> code to access memory outside an allocated array, which will sooner or later
>> cause the kernel to crash.
> [...]
> 
> Do you have a CVE reference for this?
> 
> Ben.
> 
Hi Ben,

no it was done as a normal bug afaik. Should we have one?

Stefan




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