This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
econet: fix CVE-2010-3850
to the 2.6.36-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
econet-fix-cve-2010-3850.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.36 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 16c41745c7b92a243d0874f534c1655196c64b74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Phil Blundell <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 11:49:53 -0800
Subject: econet: fix CVE-2010-3850
From: Phil Blundell <[email protected]>
commit 16c41745c7b92a243d0874f534c1655196c64b74 upstream.
Add missing check for capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN) in SIOCSIFADDR operation.
Signed-off-by: Phil Blundell <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
net/econet/af_econet.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
--- a/net/econet/af_econet.c
+++ b/net/econet/af_econet.c
@@ -661,6 +661,9 @@ static int ec_dev_ioctl(struct socket *s
err = 0;
switch (cmd) {
case SIOCSIFADDR:
+ if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
+ return -EPERM;
+
edev = dev->ec_ptr;
if (edev == NULL) {
/* Magic up a new one. */
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-2.6.36/econet-fix-cve-2010-3850.patch
queue-2.6.36/econet-fix-cve-2010-3848.patch
queue-2.6.36/econet-disallow-null-remote-addr-for-sendmsg-fixes-cve-2010-3849.patch
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