oss-security - CVE Request: Linux kernel: sys_sendto/sys_recvfrom does not validate the user provided ubuf pointer

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Message-ID: <20150323172534.GH15316@dhcp-25-225.brq.redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 18:25:35 +0100
From: Petr Matousek <pmatouse@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, CVE-assign <cve-assign@...re.org>
Subject: CVE Request: Linux kernel: sys_sendto/sys_recvfrom does not validate
 the user provided ubuf pointer

References:
https://twitter.com/grsecurity/status/579050211605102592
https://twitter.com/grsecurity/status/579075689439059968

Upstream patch:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/?id=4de930efc23b92ddf88ce91c405ee645fe6e27ea

Thanks,
-- 
Petr Matousek / Red Hat Product Security
PGP: 0xC44977CA 8107 AF16 A416 F9AF 18F3  D874 3E78 6F42 C449 77CA

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