agp_ioctl() vulnerability fix
Miod Vallat <[email protected]> Wed, 3 Jan 2007 21:34:16 +0000
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.openbsd.security.announce |
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Insufficient validation in vga(4) may allow an attacker to gain root privileges if the kernel is compiled with option PCIAGP and the actual device is not an AGP device. The PCIAGP option is present by default on i386 kernels only. This vulnerability has been discovered by Ilja van Sprundel. A patch addressing this problem is available in the -STABLE branches for OpenBSD 3.9 and OpenBSD 4.0. Standalone patch files are also available: - for OpenBSD 4.0: ftp://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.0/i386/007_agp.patch - for OpenBSD 3.9: ftp://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.9/i386/017_agp.patch For more information about OpenBSD errata and how to apply them, please refer to FAQ 10.15: http://www.OpenBSD.org/faq/faq10.html#Patches