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Message-Id: <20160518153435.8189F6C00A8@smtpvmsrv1.mitre.org>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 11:34:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: carnil@...ian.org
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request: Linux: information leak in Rock Ridge Extensions to iso9660 -- fs/isofs/rock.c
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> The following commit in Linux v4.6 addresses an information leak
> caused by not properly handling NM entries containing NUL.
>
> https://git.kernel.org/linus/99d825822eade8d827a1817357cbf3f889a552d6
>> stop once we'd encountered 32 CEs, but you can get about 8Kb easily.
>> And that's what will be passed to readdir callback as the name length.
>> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # 0.98pl6+ (yes, really)
Use CVE-2016-4913.
This might have a threat model that is not often seen in vulnerability
reports. Is the issue somewhat similar to CVE-2014-9731, i.e., the
attacker only needs the ability to mount an isofs filesystem on an
already-running system -- either with physical removable media or
equivalent actions that may be relevant with virtualization -- and
then the attacker obtains the ability to read from some unintended
(but not arbitrary) kernel memory locations? Also, is the severity of
CVE-2016-4913 much greater than that of CVE-2014-9731, because the
amount of kernel memory is much larger and because CVE-2016-4913
affects essentially every Linux release (as long as CONFIG_ISO9660_FS
was used)?
Are there also plausible scenarios with a DoS impact, but they are of
less concern because the information leak is much more important in
almost all realistic cases? (For example: possibly someone has a
long-running root process that tries to maintain a searchable index of
all files on all user-mounted isofs filesystems, and that process
stops because the code sees invalid readdir results.)
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