From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751828AbZBWXjc (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:39:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752425AbZBWXjT (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:39:19 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:53726 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752370AbZBWXjT (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:39:19 -0500 Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:38:59 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20090223.153859.265316948.davem@davemloft.net> To: eugeneteo@kernel.sg Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, mpatocka@redhat.com Subject: Re: net: amend the fix for SO_BSDCOMPAT gsopt infoleak From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20090223164112.GA29425@kernel.sg> References: <20090223164112.GA29425@kernel.sg> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.1 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Eugene Teo Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:41:12 +0800 > The fix for CVE-2009-0676 (upstream commit df0bca04) is incomplete. Note > that the same problem of leaking kernel memory will reappear if someone > on some architecture uses struct timeval with some internal padding (for > example tv_sec 64-bit and tv_usec 32-bit) --- then, you are going to > leak the padded bytes to userspace. > > Signed-off-by: Eugene Teo > Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks Eugene.