From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Tomas Hozza <thozza@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@linuxdriverproject.org,
olaf@aepfle.de, apw@canonical.com, jasowang@redhat.com,
kys@microsoft.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools: hv: Netlink source address validation allows DoS
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:39:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121115233909.GA17580@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1352368409-18809-1-git-send-email-thozza@redhat.com>
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@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
> ---
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-15 23:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-08 9:53 Tomas Hozza
2012-11-08 13:18 ` KY Srinivasan
2012-11-15 23:39 ` Greg KH [this message]
2012-11-16 7:21 ` Tomas Hozza
2012-11-18 14:21 ` Tomas Hozza
[not found] <20121106152911.GA1591@kroah.com>
2012-11-07 8:17 ` Tomas Hozza
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