APPLIED: [SRU][Trusty][Bionic][PATCH 0/1] Fix for CVE-2017-13168
Khaled Elmously
khalid.elmously at canonical.com
Mon Oct 22 07:23:28 UTC 2018
On 2018-10-12 18:09:44 , Kleber Souza wrote:
> https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2017-13168.html
>
> It was discovered that the generic SCSI driver in the Linux kernel did not
> properly enforce permissions on kernel memory access. A local attacker
> could use this to expose sensitive information or possibly elevate
> privileges.
>
> Clean cherry-pick for Bionic, minor backport needed for Trusty since a
> couple of helpers are not present in 3.13. Compile tested.
>
> Already fixed in Xenial as part as one of the upstream stable updates.
>
> Jann Horn (1):
> scsi: sg: mitigate read/write abuse
>
> drivers/scsi/sg.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.17.1
>
>
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