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author | Tomas Hozza <thozza@redhat.com> | 2012-11-08 13:53:29 +0400 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-11-16 03:38:34 +0400 |
commit | 95a69adab9acfc3981c504737a2b6578e4d846ef (patch) | |
tree | a1723dbb78e14389441d0911e7a53398dfffa590 /CREDITS | |
parent | aeba4a06f28fad11b1e61d150bd3cde3008b80c8 (diff) | |
download | linux-95a69adab9acfc3981c504737a2b6578e4d846ef.tar.xz |
tools: hv: Netlink source address validation allows DoS
The source code without this patch caused hypervkvpd to exit when it processed
a spoofed Netlink packet which has been sent from an untrusted local user.
Now Netlink messages with a non-zero nl_pid source address are ignored
and a warning is printed into the syslog.
Signed-off-by: Tomas Hozza <thozza@redhat.com>
Acked-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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