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Re: CVE request: kernel: set cred->user_ns in key_replace_session_keyring

From: Huzaifa Sidhpurwala <huzaifas () redhat com>
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:56:34 +0530

On 06/03/2011 12:10 PM, Eugene Teo wrote:

new->user_ns is uninitialised if the cred is not created with
copy_creds(). If I'm not mistaken, this was introduced by
47a150edc2ae734c0f4bf50aa19499 (v2.6.39).

Thread starts from https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/23/199;
Proposed patch: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/25/265

Thanks, Eugene


This has been assigned CVE-2011-2184

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Huzaifa Sidhpurwala / Red Hat Security Response Team

Current thread:

CVE request: kernel: set cred->user_ns in key_replace_session_keyring Eugene Teo (Jun 02)
- Re: CVE request: kernel: set cred->user_ns in key_replace_session_keyring Huzaifa Sidhpurwala (Jun 05)