Hello. Just FYI there is already a CVE name CVE-2012-5532 for this issue. Regards, Tomas Hozza ----- Original Message ----- > On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 10:53:29AM +0100, Tomas Hozza wrote: > > The source code without this patch caused hypervkvpd to exit when > > it processed > > a spoofed Netlink packet which has been sent from an untrusted > > local user. > > Now Netlink messages with a non-zero nl_pid source address are > > ignored > > and a warning is printed into the syslog. > > > > Signed-off-by: Tomas Hozza <thozza@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Acked-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c | 8 +++++++- > > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > > > diff --git a/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c b/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c > > index 13c2a14..c1d9102 100755 > > Why are you setting a .c file to executable permissions? Something > is > really wrong here... > > greg k-h > _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
