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Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 10:14:46 +0100
From: Mathias Krause <minipli@...glemail.com>
To: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
Subject: Re: CVE Requests (maybe): Linux kernel: various info
 leaks, some NULL ptr derefs

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com> wrote:
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> On 03/05/2013 01:52 PM, Mathias Krause wrote:
>> Hi Kurt,
>>
>> I don't care much about info leaks beyond merely fixing them. But
>> Alexander asked me to request a CVE ID for the recent crypto fix
>> of mine and as I did quite a few of such fixes in the recent past,
>> I'll just list them all here. The information might be a bit scarce
>> for a CVE ID request but as I don't expect any CVE IDs anyway, I
>> didn't wanted to do too much unnecessary work. ;)
>
> CVE ID's prompt people to back port these security fixes which is a
> good thing indeed =).

M'kay. Might be the case for the crypto fix as it wasn't Cc'ed to
stable, albeit I asked Herbert for it :/
(see <http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org/msg08339.html>).

>> 9a5467b crypto: user - fix info leaks in report API
gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/linus/9a5467b

>> ecd7918 xfrm_user: ensure user supplied esn replay window is valid
gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/linus/ecd7918

>> 1f86840 xfrm_user: fix info leak in copy_to_user_tmpl()
gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/linus/1f86840

>> 7b78983 xfrm_user: fix info leak in copy_to_user_policy()
gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/linus/7b78983

>> f778a63 xfrm_user: fix info leak in copy_to_user_state()
gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/linus/f778a63

>> 4c87308 xfrm_user: fix info leak in copy_to_user_auth()
gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/linus/4c87308

>> 43da5f2 net: fix info leak in compat dev_ifconf()
gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/linus/43da5f2

>> 2d8a041 ipvs: fix info leak in getsockopt(IP_VS_SO_GET_TIMEOUT)
gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/linus/2d8a041

>> 7b07f8e dccp: fix info leak via getsockopt(DCCP_SOCKOPT_CCID_TX_INFO)
gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/linus/7b07f8e

>> 3592aae llc: fix info leak via getsockname()
gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/linus/3592aae

>> 04d4fbc l2tp: fix info leak via getsockname()
gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/linus/04d4fbc

>> 792039c Bluetooth: L2CAP - Fix info leak via getsockname()
gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/linus/792039c

>> 9344a97 Bluetooth: RFCOMM - Fix info leak via getsockname()
gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/linus/9344a97

>> f9432c5 Bluetooth: RFCOMM - Fix info leak in ioctl(RFCOMMGETDEVLIST)
gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/linus/f9432c5

>> 9ad2de4 Bluetooth: RFCOMM - Fix info leak in getsockopt(BT_SECURITY)
gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/linus/9ad2de4

>> 3f68ba0 Bluetooth: HCI - Fix info leak via getsockname()
gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/linus/3f68ba0

>> e15ca9a Bluetooth: HCI - Fix info leak in getsockopt(HCI_FILTER)
gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/linus/e15ca9a

>> 3c0c5cf atm: fix info leak via getsockname()
gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/linus/3c0c5cf

>> e862f1a atm: fix info leak in getsockopt(SO_ATMPVC)
gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/linus/e862f1a

>> a117dac net/tun: fix ioctl() based info leaks
gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/linus/a117dac

>> 0143fc5 udf: avoid info leak on export
gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/linus/0143fc5

>> fe685aa isofs: avoid info leak on export
gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/linus/fe685aa

>> 864745d xfrm_user: return error pointer instead of NULL
gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/linus/864745d

>> 276bdb8 dccp: check ccid before dereferencing
gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/linus/276bdb8

> can you provide the full git id/link to these?

Links are inlined above. The pattern how to create web-links is pretty
obvious, though.

> Also were they all
> discovered by the same researcher?

All of the bugs were discovered and fixed by me. But I'm no
researcher. It's more a hobby of mine ;)

>> While we are at it: Do we care about getting CVE IDs for info
>> leaks? If so, all of them or only for the ones with leaks above a
>> certain threshold (>= 16 bytes, e.g.)?
>
> Yes please. Much like DNA fragments you can potentially string them
> together to reveal larger things.

Okay. I'll continue posting my findings, then.


Regards,
Mathias

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