ACK / APPLIED[D/Unstable]: [PATCH 0/1][SRU][B/C/D/Unstable] CVE-2019-8912 - AF_* use after free

Seth Forshee seth.forshee at canonical.com
Wed Feb 27 13:55:31 UTC 2019


On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 11:13:39AM +0000, Tyler Hicks wrote:
> https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/?cve=CVE-2019-8912
> 
> CVE-2019-8912 was assigned for a use-after-free vulnerability in the AF_ALG
> implementation. However, that issue affects additional network families and now
> there is a more generic fix available.
> 
> Since we have already applied the AF_ALG fix, it is worth noting that it is fine to have the AF_ALG fix and this more generic fix both applied.
> 
> Clean cherry pick of the fix. I smoke tested a kernel build in a Bionic VM.

Acked-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee at canonical.com>

Applied to disco/master-next and unstable/master, thanks!



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