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Message-ID: <CA+rthh8+hiLbPa74rz+txqJuODKxGpTUuJHVacH34VMWD4+R8Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:59:01 +0100
From: Mathias Krause <minipli@...glemail.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request: kernel - sock_diag: Fix out-of-bounds
access to sock_diag_handlers[]
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Dan Rosenberg
<dan.j.rosenberg@...il.com> wrote:
> 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.
$ git describe --contains d366477a52f1df29fa066ffb18e4e6101ee2ad04
v3.3-rc1~182^2~326
Is git lying to me or what?
Cheers,
Mathias
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