APPLIED[D]: [PATCH 0/1][SRU][C/D] CVE-2019-8956 - SCTP use-after-free

Seth Forshee seth.forshee at canonical.com
Wed Feb 27 13:30:09 UTC 2019


On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 10:28:26AM +0000, Tyler Hicks wrote:
> https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2019/CVE-2019-8956.html
> 
>  Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Linux Kernel, which
>  can be exploited by malicious, local users to potentially gain
>  escalated privileges.
> 
>  A use-after-free error in the "sctp_sendmsg()" function
>  (net/sctp/socket.c) when handling SCTP_SENDALL flag can be exploited
>  to corrupt memory.
> 
> Clean cherry pick back to Cosmic (older releases are not affected).
> Build logs are clean.

Applied to disco/master-next, thanks!



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