ACK: [UBUNTU B,F 0/1] CVE-2022-43945

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Wed Dec 14 17:15:37 UTC 2022


On 12/14/22 9:37 AM, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> [Impact]
> A remote user may cause an out-of-bounds access on a NFS server.
> 
> The other fixes for this vulnerability were either:
> 
> 1) not applicable, since they were fixing newer commits not present
>     on 5.4 or 4.15.
> 2) only affected NFSv2 or NFSv3, but those were mitigated by function
>     nfs_request_too_big, which was removed around 5.8.
> 
> [Testing]
> A smoke test was done by mounting a localhost NFS server using -o nfsvers=4.
> 
> A PoC was built but did not manage to trigger any oops.
> 
> [Potential regression]
> NFS servers might break.
> 
> Chuck Lever (1):
>    NFSD: Cap rsize_bop result based on send buffer size
> 
>   fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>   1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> 
Acked-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>
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Tim Gardner
Canonical, Inc




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