Re: [vserver] 3.18.43-vs2.3.7.4

From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert_at_13thfloor.at>
Date: Fri 21 Oct 2016 - 15:24:46 BST
Message-ID: <20161021142446.GC1705@MAIL.13thfloor.at>

On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 03:24:23PM +0200, Romain Rivière wrote:
> On 21/10/16 14:57, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
>> Did you check that the CVE is relevant for 3.18.x?

>> If so, it should be easy to fix with a small patch.

>> Not sure that we care about the ASN.1 parser though.

> From what I can gather, it is, having been introduced
> in 3.10-rc1.

> The faulty code is still in 3.18 and the fix found here
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=23c8a812dc3c621009e4f0e5342aa4e2ede1ceaa
> applies nicely to 3.18.43.
> Dunno why it hasn't been backported though.

Maybe ask upstream then?
Might be that they just have forgotten about it.

Best,
Herbert

> HTH
> --
> Romain
Received on Fri Oct 21 15:22:10 2016

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