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Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:54:10 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- kernel: recv{from,msg}() on an
rds socket can leak kernel memory
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On 07/26/2012 09:25 AM, Petr Matousek wrote:
> Two similar issues:
>
> 1) Reported by Jay Fenlason and Doug Ledford: recvfrom() on an RDS
> socket can disclose sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage)-sizeof(struct
> sockaddr_in) bytes of kernel stack to userspace when receiving a
> datagram.
>
> 2) Reported by Jay Fenlason: recv{from,msg}() on an RDS socket can
> disclose sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage) bytes of kernel stack to
> userspace when other code paths are taken.
>
> Both issues end in rds_recvmsg() so one CVE is sufficient.
>
> Upstream commit:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=06b6a1cf6e776426766298d055bb3991957d90a7
>
> Thanks,
>
Please use CVE-2012-3430 for this issue.
- --
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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