APPLIED[D] / NAK[Unstable]: [PATCH 0/1][SRU][D/Unstable] CVE-2018-16880 - vhost_net out-of-bounds write

[Seth Forshee]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 09:03:35PM +0000, Tyler Hicks wrote:
> https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2018/CVE-2018-16880.html
> 
>  A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's handle_rx() function in the [vhost_net]
>  driver. A malicious virtual guest, under specific conditions, can trigger an
>  out-of-bounds write in a kmalloc-8 slab on a virtual host which may lead to a
>  kernel memory corruption and a system panic. Due to the nature of the flaw,
>  privilege escalation cannot be fully ruled out. Versions from v4.16 and newer
>  are vulnerable.
> 
> This is a clean cherry pick to Disco and Unstable. I've ensured that there are
> no new build warnings and smoke tested this patch by boot testing in a VM.

Applied to disco/master-next. We've already picked up this fix in
unstable when rebasing to 5.0-rc5. Thanks!