From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Chas Williams III <Charles.Williams@brocade.com>
Cc: "stable@vger.kernel.org" <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Backport of 8b01fc86b9 (take i_mutex during ...) for 3.14.y
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 22:05:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150428200524.GA31347@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1430250910.32002.5.camel@REM-DF8MK12.vyatta.com>
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 01:55:10PM -0600, Chas Williams III wrote:
> Hello, this is a backport of 8b01fc86b9 for 3.14.y. Please
> apply as this addresses CVE-2015-3339.
>
> Thanks!
>
> From: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>
> Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 02:48:39 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] fs: take i_mutex during prepare_binprm for set[ug]id
> executables
>
> This prevents a race between chown() and execve(), where chowning a
> setuid-user binary to root would momentarily make the binary setuid
> root.
>
> This patch was mostly written by Linus Torvalds.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> [ciwillia@brocade.com: backport to 3.14: context]
> ---
You aren't going to sign off on your changes? Why not?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-28 20:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-28 19:55 Backport of 8b01fc86b9 (take i_mutex during ...) for 3.14.y Chas Williams III
2015-04-28 20:05 ` Greg KH [this message]
2015-04-28 20:12 ` Chas Williams III
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