oss-security - Re: libmnl: incorrect validation of netlink message origin allows attackers to spoof netlink messages

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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 19:54:10 +0100
From: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@...ian.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Assign a CVE Identifier <cve-assign@...re.org>
Subject: Re: libmnl: incorrect validation of netlink message
 origin allows attackers to spoof netlink messages

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 12:13:50PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 02/07/2015 12:40 AM, Kurt Seifried wrote:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=848949
> > 
> > this may warrant a cve
> 
> It was blamed on the kernel and fixed there:
> 
>   <http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=134582981424588>

MITRE, can you please assign a CVE ID for the kernel, then?

This was fixed in 3.6 with
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=20e1db19db5d6b9e4e83021595eab0dc8f107be\f

Cheers,
        Moritz

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