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Message-ID: <53A87FAB.80501@mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 12:27:39 -0700
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE-2014-4014: Linux kernel user namespace bug
On 06/18/2014 12:16 AM, Sven Kieske wrote:
> Am 17.06.2014 23:47, schrieb Andy Lutomirski:
>> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net> wrote:
>>> The internal function inode_capable was used inappropriately.
>>> Depending on configuration, this may be usable to escalate privileges.
>>> A cursory inspection of my Fedora box suggests that it is not
>>> vulnerable to the obvious way to exploit this bug.
>>>
>>> The fix should appear in Linus' -master shortly, and it's tagged for
>>> stable. In the mean time, I've attached it here.
>>>
>>
>> The commit that fixes this is:
>>
>> 23adbe12ef7d3d4195e80800ab36b37bee28cd03
>
> Do you happen to know in which kernel version
> this bug got introduced?
I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's been there since user
namespaces were introduced. I think that user namespace-enabled kernels
are unlikely to be found in the wild before 3.12 or so.
--Andy
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