linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.19 091/123] gadgetfs: use-after-free in ->aio

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <551298C5.3070200@ahsoftware.de>
Date:	Wed, 25 Mar 2015 12:15:17 +0100
From:	Alexander Holler <holler@...oftware.de>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.19 091/123] gadgetfs: use-after-free in ->aio_read()

Am 25.03.2015 um 12:08 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 11:58:46AM +0100, Alexander Holler wrote:
>>> As this has been broken since 3.16, and no one has taken the time to fix
>>> it since then, it's not really an issue here, people can just use 4.0 if
>>> they want it.
>>
>> Just a hint I think which should be kept in mind: Debian still uses
>> something below 3.16, which very likely is the reason why nobody has hit
>> (and examined) these bugs before.
>
> Not all the world is Debian :)
>

Sure, but e.g. the already small group of users of gadgetfs seem to use 
debian based distributions. For reasons I can understand (e.g. they 
aren't hit by the (new) bugs in gadgetfs. ;)
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/