oss-security - CVE Request -- kernel: nfs4_getfacl decoding kernel oops

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Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:48:24 +0100
From: Petr Matousek <pmatouse@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: CVE Request -- kernel: nfs4_getfacl decoding kernel oops

"nfs4_getfacl decoding causes a kernel Oops when a server returns more
than 2 GETATTR bitmap words in response to the FATTR4_ACL attribute
request.

While the NFS client only asks for one attribute (FATTR4_ACL) in the
first bitmap word, the NFSv4 protocol allows for the server to return
unbounded bitmaps (more than two)."

Upstream commit:
e5012d1f3861d18c7f3814e757c1c3ab3741dbcd - incomplete, handles only the
case when 2 words are expected and 3 are returned

Proposed complete upstream patch:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-nfs/msg25288.html

Reference:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747106

Credit: Andy Adamson

Thanks,
-- 
Petr Matousek / Red Hat Security Response Team

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