From: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipc: explicitly clear stack memory in user structs
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 12:50:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101109205008.GU5876@outflux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=c4kt46Pa1FA-e8=36Vn0KcmZgHHKWKZ_bgvzL@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Pekka,
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 10:43:07PM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:58 AM, Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com> wrote:
> > CVE-2010-4072
> >
> > The old shm interface will leak a few bytes of stack contents. Explicitly
> > clear structure using memset instead of C99-style initialization in case
> > there are ever holes in the packing.
> >
> > Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
>
> This looks like a genuine bug fix but I don't see this patch in
> mainline. Why is that?
No one has committed it. I don't know why; I've sent it a few times now.
-Kees
--
Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-09 20:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-25 23:58 [PATCH] ipc: explicitly clear stack memory in user structs Kees Cook
2010-11-09 20:43 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-11-09 20:50 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2010-11-09 20:51 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-11-09 21:34 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-11-09 21:49 ` Kees Cook
2010-11-09 22:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-11-09 23:09 ` Andrew Morton
2010-11-09 23:48 ` Kees Cook
2010-11-10 0:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-11-10 1:03 ` Joe Perches
2010-11-10 2:00 ` Kees Cook
2010-11-11 7:37 ` Pekka Enberg
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