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Message-ID: <YDgNJsbBFtYumXCp@eldamar.lan>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 21:48:38 +0100
From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@...ian.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@...hat.com>,
Felix Kosterhon <felix.kosterhon@...uinfra.com>
Subject: Re: Vulnerability in the Linux Audit Framework Auditd
Hi,
On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 03:52:54PM +0000, Felix Kosterhon wrote:
> Hello Mr. Grubb,
>
> thank you for your insight.
> First and foremost we would like to clarify that our intent is not
> to put blame on anyone but to improve the level of security for the
> affected systems and the organisations utilising Auditd.
> According to the rules.conf manual page, file-watch rules are meant
> to monitor any accesses to files based on their permission level.
> For the syscalls mentioned in this report this is not the case.
>
> RedHat Inc. shares our perspective on this issue and has assigned a
> CVE for the vulnerability. Additionally they informed us that they
> will work together with the Upstream Linux Kernel Developers on
> behalf of fixing this issue.
Is there a reference to this which can be followed/tracked? Asking
because the Red Hat bugzilla entry for CVE-2020-35501 for now would
still be restricted, but would like to get a better idea on how to
track this issue within Debian.
Regards,
Salvatore
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