[CVE-2012-5532] hypervkvpd DoS

[Luis Henriques]

Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com> writes:

> 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:

Actually, I believe this could also be applied to raring.

Cheers,
--
Luis

>
> 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(-)
>
> -- 
> 1.7.10.4