From: Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>, jmorris@namei.org
Cc: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, keyrings@vger.kernel.org,
Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] X.509: Fix the time validation [ver #3]
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 10:23:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56694497.9090308@ahsoftware.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151112113840.22150.8769.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Am 12.11.2015 um 12:38 schrieb David Howells:
> This fixes CVE-2015-5327. It affects kernels from 4.3-rc1 onwards.
>
> Fix the X.509 time validation to use month number-1 when looking up the
> number of days in that month. Also put the month number validation before
> doing the lookup so as not to risk overrunning the array.
I've just run into this with 4.3.1 (mon_len ended up with 0 because of
the wrong index). Which means currently build stable kernels with
signature verification might not load modules (depending on which value
the invalid index mon_len (12) ends up with.
Regards,
Alexander Holler
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-10 9:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-12 11:38 [PATCH] X.509: Fix the time validation [ver #3] David Howells
2015-12-10 9:23 ` Alexander Holler [this message]
2015-12-10 15:15 ` Alexander Holler
2015-12-10 15:26 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-12-10 15:34 ` Alexander Holler
2015-12-10 18:00 ` Alexander Holler
2015-12-10 18:09 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-12-10 18:21 ` Alexander Holler
2015-12-11 11:13 ` David Howells
2015-12-11 12:31 ` Josh Boyer
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