APPLIED: [CVE-2012-0055] overlayfs devicefs permissions

[Tim Gardner]

On 01/18/2012 10:45 AM, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> CVE-2012-0055
> 	Using overlayfs with lxc causes tty problems that can kill X.
> 	Overlayfs needs to honor the necessary cgroup permission calls.
>
> This was only exposed from oneiric and later where we have applied
> overlayfs.  Fixes for this have already been applied to precise.
> Following this email is a patch for oneiric.  This is a backport of the
> proposed upstream fix.
>
> Proposing for oneiric.
>
> -apw
>


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