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Re: kernel: gfs2 acl issue


From: Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 21:44:20 -0400

Kernels prior to 2.6.32 are not vulnerable.

-Dan

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:48 PM, akuster <akuster () mvista com> wrote:
Dan,

Is 2.6.32 the earliest kernel showing the problem or just what was tested?

Regards,
Armin

On 07/08/2010 05:56 PM, Dan Rosenberg wrote:
To elaborate on the issue: the gfs2 filesystem in 2.6.32 kernels
currently allows any user to set arbitrary ACLs for files they do not
own, essentially granting full access to everything.  The source of
this problem also caused other misbehavior of ACLs.  This fix resolved
the issue for 2.6.33, but it was not backported, so 2.6.32 remains
vulnerable.

-Dan

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Eugene Teo <eugeneteo () kernel sg> wrote:
Upstream commit 2646a1f6 (2.6.33-rc1) fixed an interesting gfs2 acl issue
late last year. Thanks Dan Rosenberg for informing us about this.

http://git.kernel.org/linus/2646a1f61a3b5525914757f10fa12b5b94713648

I didn't request a CVE name for this but if you need one, ping Steve.

Thanks, Eugene
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