[CVE-2012-5532] hypervkvpd DoS

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Wed Jan 9 12:35:11 UTC 2013


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 Oneiric.
This patch is a backport from 95a69adab9acfc3981c504737a2b6578e4d846ef

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

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

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1.8.0




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