[SRU][Focal][PATCH 0/1] CVE-2020-36691

[Yuxuan Luo]

On 5/28/23 15:00, Yuxuan Luo wrote:
> [Impact]
> nlattr.c does not bound the recursion depth, therefore, in theory, attackers
> can issue a policy referring to its upper level, causing a infinite loop.
>
> [Backport]
> There is a conflict in cherry picking which requires backporting a
> refactoring commit; it could be ignored by keeping the data structure before
> refactoring.
>
> [Test]
> Compile and boot tested.
>
> [Potential Regression]
> Expecting low regression potential limited to lib/nlattr.c.
>
> Yuxuan Luo (1):
The author should be `Johannes Berg`, for some reason the format-patch 
behaved oddly.
>    netlink: limit recursion depth in policy validation
>
>   lib/nlattr.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>   1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>