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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 18:36:29 +0300
From: Evgenii Shatokhin <eshatokhin@...tuozzo.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE-2021-20219 Linux kernel: improper
synchronization in flush_to_ldisc() can lead to DoS
On 17.03.2021 18:17, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 07:45:59PM +0530, Rohit Keshri wrote:
>> Hello Team,
>>
>> A denial of service vulnerability was found in n_tty_receive_char_special
>> in drivers/tty/n_tty.c of the Linux kernel. In this flaw a local attacker
>> with a normal user privilege could delay the loop (due to a changing
>> ldata->read_head, and a missing sanity check) and cause a threat to the
>> system availability.
>>
>> 'CVE-2021-20219' was assigned by Red Hat.
>>
>> Acknowledgements: Evgenii Shatokhin (Virtuozzo Research LLC)
>
> Really? Not the tools or people that reported this issue and fixed it
> in the community back in 2018?
The description is misleading, unfortunately.
RedHat backported that original fix (commit 3d63b7e4ae0d "n_tty: Fix
stall at n_tty_receive_char_special().") long ago.
I just found that their backport was incomplete: one hunk of the patch
was lost. This lead to the problem I reported: the reproducer program
caused n_tty_receive_char() to loop forever. As a result, other
processes could hang too.
Regards,
Evgenii
>
> {sigh}
>
> greg k-h
> .
>
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