ACK: [SRU Bionic/Focal/Impish/OEM-5.14 0/1] CVE-2022-0492

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Mon Feb 14 14:12:21 UTC 2022


Acked-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>

On 2/14/22 6:35 AM, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> [Impact]
> A user in a privileged container may be able to execute commands outside
> the container.
> 
> [Backport]
> 5.4 backport is a simple fixup, coming from upstream 5.4.y.
> 4.15 backport comes from upstream 4.15.y and is move involved because
> mount/remount has been changed to the fsconfig framework.
> 
> [Test case]
> sudo unshare -UrmC sh -c 'echo /bin/true > /sys/fs/cgroup/rdma/release_agent' ; cat /sys/fs/cgroup/rdma/release_agent
> 
> [Potential regression]
> cgroup mounts may be denied or writing to release_agent may be denied,
> leading to some cgroups not being cleaned up.
> 
> Eric W. Biederman (1):
>    cgroup-v1: Require capabilities to set release_agent
> 
>   kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
> 

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Tim Gardner
Canonical, Inc



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