ACK: [SRU][F/J/N/O][PATCH 0/1] CVE-2024-50264

Massimiliano Pellizzer massimiliano.pellizzer at canonical.com
Mon Nov 25 16:11:43 UTC 2024


On Mon, 25 Nov 2024 at 16:39, Magali Lemes <magali.lemes at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> [Impact]
> During loopback communication, a dangling pointer can be created in
> vsk->trans, potentially leading to a Use-After-Free condition.  This
> issue is resolved by initializing vsk->trans to NULL.
>
> [Fix]
> Oracular: Clean cherry-pick
> Noble:    Clean cherry-pick
> Jammy:    Clean cherry-pick
> Focal:    Clean cherry-pick
> Bionic:   Fix sent to ESM ML
> Xenial:   Not affected
> Trusty:   Not affected
>
> [Test Case]
> Compile tested.
>
> [Where problems could occur]
> This patch touches virtio transport for vsock, but due to its limited
> scope issues here are unlikely to happen.
>
> Hyunwoo Kim (1):
>   vsock/virtio: Initialization of the dangling pointer occurring in
>     vsk->trans
>
>  net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> --
> 2.34.1
>
>
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Acked-by: Massimiliano Pellizzer <massimiliano.pellizzer at canonical.com>

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