On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 11:42:34PM +0100, Greg Kurz wrote:
> The local_llistxattr() callback is vulnerable to symlink attacks because
> it calls llistxattr() which follows symbolic links in all path elements but
> the rightmost one.
> 
> This patch introduces a helper to emulate the non-existing flistxattrat()
> function: it is implemented with /proc/self/fd which provides a trusted
> path that can be safely passed to llistxattr().
> 
> local_llistxattr() is converted to use this helper and opendir_nofollow().
> 
> This partly fixes CVE-2016-9602.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gr...@kaod.org>
> ---
> v2: - introduce /proc based flistxattrat_nofollow()
> ---
>  hw/9pfs/9p-xattr.c |   35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com>

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