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| author |   Tomas Hozza <thozza@redhat.com> | 2012-11-08 10:53:29 +0100 |
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| committer |   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-11-15 15:38:34 -0800 |
| commit | 95a69adab9acfc3981c504737a2b6578e4d846ef (patch) | |
| tree | a1723dbb78e14389441d0911e7a53398dfffa590 /ipc | |
| parent | mei: use the same bus msg for connect and disconnect request (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-95a69adab9acfc3981c504737a2b6578e4d846ef.tar.xz linux-dev-95a69adab9acfc3981c504737a2b6578e4d846ef.zip | |
tools: hv: Netlink source address validation allows DoS
The source code without this patch caused hypervkvpd to exit when it processed
a spoofed Netlink packet which has been sent from an untrusted local user.
Now Netlink messages with a non-zero nl_pid source address are ignored
and a warning is printed into the syslog.
Signed-off-by: Tomas Hozza <thozza@redhat.com>
Acked-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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