From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Loic <hackurx@opensec.fr>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, ameyt@codeaurora.org,
amit.pundir@linaro.org, rostedt@goodmis.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing: Use strlcpy() instead of strcpy() in __trace_find_cmdline()
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2018 09:52:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181216085233.GC29097@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181215182537.e0f95a3bb791e4f68f23eac8@opensec.fr>
On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 06:25:37PM +0100, Loic wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Please picked up this patch for linux 4.4 and 4.9.
> This fixes CVE-2017-0605 (Rejected?). Tested in Debian ;)
It was rejected as a CVE for a good reason, and that reason is also why
I refused to add it to the stable kernel releases. In short, this is
not an issue or bug at all, there is nothing wrong with the existing
code.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-16 8:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-15 17:25 [PATCH] tracing: Use strlcpy() instead of strcpy() in __trace_find_cmdline() Loic
2018-12-15 20:12 ` Salvatore Bonaccorso
2018-12-16 8:52 ` Greg KH [this message]
2018-12-16 19:27 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-12-16 20:08 ` Loic
2018-12-17 8:19 ` Greg KH
2018-12-17 19:42 ` Loic
2018-12-17 20:57 ` Sasha Levin
2018-12-17 21:05 ` Greg KH
2018-12-18 17:45 ` Loic
2018-12-18 3:00 ` Ben Hutchings
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