oss-security - Re: CVE-Request: hyper-v daemon

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Message-ID: <20120607085634.GA25065@kroah.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 17:56:34 +0900
From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE-Request: hyper-v daemon

On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 10:22:04AM +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 10:35:24AM +0900, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 04:59:59PM +0200, Sebastian Krahmer wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > The hyper-v daemon fails to check origin of netlink messages.
> > > Please see
> > > 
> > > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=761200
> > 
> > Is there a fix for this anywhere yet?
> 
> Attached to the bugreport and here. It is the same patch as pasted in #c3 of this report.

Thanks, as this tool is part of the Linux kernel, is someone going to
send a patch upstream to get this fixed there?

thanks,

greg k-h

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