From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936208AbaFJAan (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2014 20:30:43 -0400 Received: from mail-ve0-f181.google.com ([209.85.128.181]:34517 "EHLO mail-ve0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934584AbaFJAak (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2014 20:30:40 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20140610003234.GB20728@kroah.com> References: <1401332999-15167-1-git-send-email-eparis@redhat.com> <20140609223057.GB18475@kroah.com> <20140609224645.GA8113@kroah.com> <20140610003234.GB20728@kroah.com> From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 17:30:19 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] auditsc: audit_krule mask accesses need bounds checking To: Greg KH Cc: Eric Paris , Linus Torvalds , linux-audit@redhat.com, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , stable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 03:55:20PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Greg KH wrote: >> > On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 03:35:02PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Greg KH wrote: >> >> > On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 11:09:58PM -0400, Eric Paris wrote: >> >> >> From: Andy Lutomirski >> >> >> >> >> >> Fixes an easy DoS and possible information disclosure. >> >> >> >> >> >> This does nothing about the broken state of x32 auditing. >> >> >> >> >> >> eparis: If the admin has enabled auditd and has specifically loaded audit >> >> >> rules. This bug has been around since before git. Wow... >> >> >> >> >> >> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org >> >> >> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski >> >> >> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris >> >> >> --- >> >> >> kernel/auditsc.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++--------- >> >> >> 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) >> >> > >> >> > Did this patch get dropped somewhere? Isn't it a valid bugfix, or did I >> >> > miss a later conversation about this? >> >> >> >> Hmm. It seems that it didn't make it into Linus' tree. Crap. >> >> >> >> IMO we need some kind of real tracking system for issues reported to >> >> security@. >> > >> > That seems to be my mbox at times :) >> > >> > But yes, having something "real" might be good if the load gets higher, >> > right now it's so low that my "sweep pending security patches" task >> > usually catches anything pending, which is rare. >> > >> >> There are currently at least two issues that I reported that are stuck >> in limbo: this one and the (not-yet-public) vfs thing. > > That was next on my list to poke people about... > >> And there's the CVE-2014-0181 regression fix that almost got >> forgotten, but that isn't really a security issue. > > What is that, where was that reported? commit 2d7a85f4b06e9c27ff629f07a524c48074f07f81 Author: Eric W. Biederman Date: Fri May 30 11:04:00 2014 -0700 netlink: Only check file credentials for implicit destinations The security issue got fixed quickly, but the fix turned out to be problematic. --Andy