From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
To: Bronek Kozicki <brok@spamcop.net>, stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: patch 4.8 "net: handle no dst on skb in icmp6_send"
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 16:50:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7cb8d93f-52a4-2a7a-cb0a-af591ec4a4fd@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a1476c7a-dab1-7afc-5f5d-65de1fbc4e68@spamcop.net>
On 01/08/2017, 03:28 PM, Bronek Kozicki wrote:
> Hello,
>
> any particular reason why this fix
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=79dc7e3f1cd323be4c81aa1a94faa1b3ed987fb2
> was missed from stable 4.8 line? Apparently the bug being fixed has its
> own https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9919
The patch is marked as:
Fixes: 5d41ce29e ("net: icmp6_send should use dst dev to determine L3
domain")
and that is only in 4.9. So there seems to be a little point backporting
to older kernels.
thanks,
--
js
suse labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-11 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-08 14:28 Bronek Kozicki
2017-01-08 14:52 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-01-11 15:50 ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2017-01-11 15:56 ` Bronek Kozicki
2017-01-11 15:58 ` Jiri Slaby
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