linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] AppArmor: fix oops in apparmor

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Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.00.1106011024150.16178@tundra.namei.org>
Date:	Wed, 1 Jun 2011 10:25:37 +1000 (EST)
From:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
To:	Kees Cook <kees.cook@...onical.com>
cc:	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] AppArmor: fix oops in apparmor_setprocattr

On Tue, 31 May 2011, Kees Cook wrote:

> When invalid parameters are passed to apparmor_setprocattr a NULL deref
> oops occurs when it tries to record an audit message. This is because
> it is passing NULL for the profile parameter for aa_audit. But aa_audit
> now requires that the profile passed is not NULL.
> 
> Fix this by passing the current profile on the task that is trying to
> setprocattr.

Is this trigger able by unprivileged users?

>From which upstream commit is this an issue?


- James
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James Morris
<jmorris@...ei.org>
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