From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
To: Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org>,
"stable@vger.kernel.org" <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "ebiederm@xmission.com" <ebiederm@xmission.com>, luto@amacapital.net
Subject: Re: Patch "mnt: Prevent pivot_root from creating a loop in the mount tree" (CVE-2014-7970) is missing in 3.2 stable tree
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2017 21:42:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1507495372.2677.90.camel@decadent.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d192066f-e9d3-4e22-ba5f-5b10621a82b0@gentoo.org>
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On Wed, 2016-11-23 at 03:04 +0100, Thomas Deutschmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the following patch was backported to the following LTS kernels
>
> - >=3.16.35
> - >=3.12.33
> - >=3.10.60
> - >=3.4.106
>
>
> however it is missing from LTS kernels
>
> - linux-3.2
[...]
pivot_root() is only available with CAP_SYS_ADMIN, and 3.2 doesn't
support capabilities in user namespaces. So I don't believe this has
any security impact.
Ben.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-23 2:04 Patch "mnt: Prevent pivot_root from creating a loop in the mount tree" (CVE-2014-7970) is missing in 3.2 stable tree Thomas Deutschmann
2017-10-08 20:42 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2017-10-09 15:50 ` Eric W. Biederman
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