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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 17:34:23 +0530 (IST)
From: P J P <ppandit@...hat.com>
To: oss security list <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
cc: cve-assign@...re.org, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: Re: Re: CVE request Linux kernel: ns: user namespaces
panic
+-- On Thu, 4 Jun 2015, cve-assign@...re.org wrote --+
| >> From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
| >>
| >> The core issue is that a unprivileged user could call umount(MNT_DETACH)
| >> and in the right circumstances gain access to every file on essentially
| >> any filesystem in the mount namespace.
| >>
| >> e0c9c0afd2fc958ffa34b697972721d81df8a56f mnt: Update detach_mounts to leave mounts connected
| >> is the real bug fix that fixes a fairly scary issue.
| >>
| >> So I believe cd4a40174b71acd021877341684d8bb1dc8ea4ae prevents a
| >> difficult to trigger crash if you have
| >> e0c9c0afd2fc958ffa34b697972721d81df8a56f applied.
| >>
|
| Use CVE-2015-4176 for the issue fixed in
| e0c9c0afd2fc958ffa34b697972721d81df8a56f. This code change is present
| in 4.0.2.
|
| Use CVE-2015-4177 for the issue fixed in
| cd4a40174b71acd021877341684d8bb1dc8ea4ae. This code change is not
| present in 4.0.2.
Ie IIUC, existence of CVE-2015-4177 depends on CVE-2015-4176 being fixed,
which in turn depends on commit
-> https://git.kernel.org/linus/ce07d891a0891d3c0d0c2d73d577490486b809e1
being present. (...Eric?)
--
Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Product Security Team
47AF CE69 3A90 54AA 9045 1053 DD13 3D32 FE5B 041F
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