oss-security - Re: New Linux kernel XFRM privilege escalation

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Message-ID: <20171124090823.GA6922@kroah.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 10:08:23 +0100
From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: New Linux kernel XFRM privilege escalation

On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 09:48:00AM +0100, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> posted to bugtraq:
> 
> http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Nov/40
> https://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/3535
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1137b5e2529a8f5ca8ee709288ecba3e68044df2
> 
> affects 2.6.28 up to 4.14 I would say.

Looks like this was fixed in 4.14-rc7, so 4.14 should be ok.

thanks,

greg k-h

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