This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled fs: Add a missing permission check to do_umount to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: fs-add-a-missing-permission-check-to-do_umount.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From a1480dcc3c706e309a88884723446f2e84fedd5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 12:32:47 -0700 Subject: fs: Add a missing permission check to do_umount From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit a1480dcc3c706e309a88884723446f2e84fedd5b upstream. Accessing do_remount_sb should require global CAP_SYS_ADMIN, but only one of the two call sites was appropriately protected. Fixes CVE-2014-7975. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/namespace.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/fs/namespace.c +++ b/fs/namespace.c @@ -1365,6 +1365,8 @@ static int do_umount(struct mount *mnt, * Special case for "unmounting" root ... * we just try to remount it readonly. */ + if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + return -EPERM; down_write(&sb->s_umount); if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) retval = do_remount_sb(sb, MS_RDONLY, NULL, 0); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/fs-add-a-missing-permission-check-to-do_umount.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html