APPLIED[J]: [SRU Bionic, Focal, OEM-5.10, HWE-5.11, Impish, OEM-5.14, Jammy 0/1] CVE-2022-22942

Andrea Righi andrea.righi at canonical.com
Mon Jan 31 13:19:36 UTC 2022


On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 05:58:10PM -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> [Impact]
> Unprivileged users with DRM access on a system using vmwgfx could gain
> access to files opened by other processes.
> 
> [Fix]
> Backports were provided by author and tested on kernels 4.15, 5.4, 5.10,
> 5.11, 5.13, 5.14 and 5.15.
> 
> [Test case]
> A program that exercises the changed path gets EFAULT as expected.
> 
> [Potential regression]
> Only vmwgfx users should be affected.

Applied to jammy/linux, thanks!

-Andrea



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