[CVE-2012-5532] hypervkvpd DoS

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Fri Dec 7 12:36:52 UTC 2012


hypervkvpd will exit after receiving a netlink packet from an untrusted
local user.

Following this email, there's a patch that fixes this issue for Precise
and Quantal.  This patch has not been merged upstream yet, and sits on
gregkh's char-misc tree:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git

Tomas Hozza (1):
  UBUNTU: SAUCE: tools: hv: Netlink source address validation allows
    DoS

 tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c |    8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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1.7.10.4




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