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From: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
To: ltp@lists.linux.it
Subject: [LTP] [PATCH v2] syscalls/timer_create: Add test for CVE-2017-18344
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 13:21:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190729112152.GA26236@dell5510> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190726083701.9682-1-camann@suse.com>

Hi Christian,

> In kernels prior to 4.14.8 (missing commit cef31d9af908)
> the sigevent.sigev_notify field is not properly checked
> when creating a timer using timer_create(2).
> This can be used to read arbitrary kernel memory.

Thanks for your patch, merged into master (with Cyril's and Li's ack).

Kind regards,
Petr

      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-07-29 11:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-26  8:37 [LTP] [PATCH v2] syscalls/timer_create: Add test for CVE-2017-18344 Christian Amann
2019-07-29  9:47 ` Li Wang
2019-07-29 11:21 ` Petr Vorel [this message]

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