> -----Original Message----- > From: Tomas Hozza [mailto:thozza@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2012 10:21 AM > To: gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx > Cc: Olaf Hering; KY Srinivasan > Subject: [PATCH] tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c: Netlink source address validation > allows DoS > > Hi. > > After discussion with KY Srinivasan and Olaf Hering I'm sending you > a patch for the HyperV KVP daemon distributed in linux kernel > "tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c". > > There is an issue in the current daemon source causing hyperv kvp daemon > to exit when it processes a spoofed Netlink packet which has been sent > from an untrusted local user. > > This patch is fixing this, so now the Netlink messages with a non-zero > nl_pid source address are just ignored. You don't want to send the patch as an attachment. Please send the patch as part of the mail. Regards, K. Y > > > Regards, > > Tomas Hozza > Associate Software Engineer > BaseOS - Brno, CZ _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
