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Message-ID: <512BB31C.50003@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:53:16 -0500
From: Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request: kernel - sock_diag: Fix out-of-bounds
access to sock_diag_handlers[]
On 02/25/2013 01:45 PM, Mathias Krause wrote:
> Did you even try to run the exploit on a v3.2 kernel? Or even more
> simple, looked at the code of a v3.2 kernel? There is no sock_diag
> anywhere in the kernel; there is only inet_diag. And inet_diag hadn't
> and still does not have the out-of-bounds access issue. So no, this
> bug is non-existent on a v3.2 kernel.
>
> Thanks,
> Mathias
>
The bug was introduced with this commit:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=d366477a52f1df29fa066ffb18e4e6101ee2ad04
This commit took place during kernel version 3.2.0-rc4, so yes, it does
seem to affect 3.2 kernels.
Regards,
Dan
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