linux-kernel - Re: CVE-2023-52823: kernel: kexec: copy user-array safely

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Date: Fri, 24 May 2024 17:27:39 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@...e.cz>
Cc: cve@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org,
	Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, kexec@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: CVE-2023-52823: kernel: kexec: copy user-array safely

On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 04:13:53PM +0200, Jiri Bohac wrote:
> On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 02:38:04PM +0200, Jiri Bohac wrote:
> > On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 12:15:47PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > Nice, but then why was this commit worded this way?  Now we check twice?
> > > Double safe?  Should it be reverted?
> > 
> > double safe's good; turning it into a CVE not so much :(
> > CVE-2023-52822, CVE-2023-52824 and CVE-2023-52820, originally from the same patch
> > series, seem to be the exact same case.
> 
> Same thing: CVE-2023-52758

Agreed, now rejected, thanks for the review!

greg k-h