From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Saar Amar <Saar.Amar@microsoft.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
"linux-edac@vger.kernel.org" <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>,
"security@kernel.org" <security@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] [PATCH] x86/MCE/AMD: Fix use after free in error handling
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 19:15:56 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200128161556.GB1754@kadam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM5PR83MB01951D715568E2BFD67C51AAF10A0@AM5PR83MB0195.EURPRD83.prod.outlook.com>
On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 03:59:08PM +0000, Saar Amar wrote:
> Actually, if we are at it - Dan, given the fact there is an actual use
> (a dereference) for that pointer after the free, shouldn't we assign a
> CVE for it?
>
We don't give CVEs, you'd have to contact someone else.
I don't think this has a security impact because you already have to
be root to trigger it.
regards,
dan carpenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-28 16:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2020-01-28 14:09 ` [PATCH] x86/MCE/AMD: Fix use after free in error handling Dan Carpenter
2020-01-28 14:12 ` [EXTERNAL] " Saar Amar
2020-01-28 15:59 ` Saar Amar
2020-01-28 16:15 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2020-02-04 13:36 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-02-14 8:37 ` [PATCH] x86/mce/amd: Publish the bank pointer only after setup has succeeded Borislav Petkov
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