From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: Matthew Keenan <matt@opcode-solutions.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.22.18
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:50:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080212175015.GA2001@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878x1q6p6t.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 06:48:42PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Greg KH:
>
> > the logic is a little different in 2.6.22 and earlier in regards to this
> > area of code. This way we are safer.
>
> Your patch doesn't include the CVE-2006-0010 hunk. Is this because
> get_user() implies an access_ok() check (while __copy_from_user()
> obviously does not)?
Yes, that is exactly why. CVE-2006-0010 and -0009 are not applicable to
kernels prior to 2.6.23.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-12 17:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-11 7:43 Linux 2.6.22.18 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2008-02-11 7:43 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2008-02-11 11:31 ` Matthew Keenan
2008-02-11 15:45 ` Greg KH
2008-02-12 17:48 ` Florian Weimer
2008-02-12 17:50 ` Greg KH [this message]
2008-02-11 16:32 ` Linus Torvalds
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