linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] X.509: Fix the time validation [ver #3]

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Date:	Thu, 10 Dec 2015 10:26:04 -0500
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Alexander Holler <holler@...oftware.de>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	jmorris@...ei.org, David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@...el.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, keyrings@...r.kernel.org,
	Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] X.509: Fix the time validation [ver #3]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 04:15:22PM +0100, Alexander Holler wrote:
> Am 10.12.2015 um 10:23 schrieb Alexander Holler:
> >Am 12.11.2015 um 12:38 schrieb David Howells:
> >>This fixes CVE-2015-5327.  It affects kernels from 4.3-rc1 onwards.
> >>
> >>Fix the X.509 time validation to use month number-1 when looking up the
> >>number of days in that month.  Also put the month number validation
> >>before
> >>doing the lookup so as not to risk overrunning the array.
> >
> >I've just run into this with 4.3.1 (mon_len ended up with 0 because of
> >the wrong index). Which means currently build stable kernels with
> >signature verification might not load modules (depending on which value
> >the invalid index mon_len (12) ends up with.
> 
> Just in case of, I would suggest to quickly push out 4.3.2 (only 4.3 seems
> to be affected) which contains at least the patch mentioned in the subject
> (58585c1fc301a36625db41ac7078c4dd0a218d84 in mainline).

58585c1fc301a36625db41ac7078c4dd0a218d84 doesn't reference anything in
Linus's tree, where did you get that git commit id?

David, any reason you didn't put a cc: stable in the commit for it to be
picked up in the stable releases?

thanks,

greg k-h

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