Re: [PATCHES] Bind mount escape fixes (CVE-2015-2925)

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On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 11:15:47AM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> With a strategically placed rename bind mounts can be tricked into
> giving processes access to the entire filesystem instead of just a piece
> of it.  This misfeature has existed since bind mounts were introduced
> into the kernel.  This issue has been fixed in Linus's tree and below
> are my tested backports of the fixes to 4.2.1, 4.1.8, 3.18.21, 3.14.53,
> 3.12.48, 3.10.89, 3.4.109, 3.2.71, 2.6.32.68.  All of the kernels 
> currently listed as being active.
(...)

queued for 2.6.32, much appreciated, thanks Eric!

Willy

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